Wanilla · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Wanilla

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Few areas match the reliance on private transport seen in Wanilla, where every single household owns at least one motor vehicle. This makes the town's transport profile very different from state and national patterns, as residents depend entirely on cars or working from home.

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📍 Wanilla, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have multiple cars, with 39.5% owning two and 23.7% owning three. This is reflected in the fact that 0% of households lack a vehicle, which is well below the South Australian figure of 7.2%.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Wanilla, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 50%, followed by 3 vehicles (30%) and 1 vehicle (10%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is very common here, with 27.3% of the workforce doing so—far above the state average of 9.6%. For those who do travel, 45.5% drive their own car, while 0% use public transport to get to work.

27.3%

Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 25.6%
  • 2021: 27.3%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of employed people who got to work by train, bus, ferry or tram/light rail as their only method of travel on census day.

How people get to work

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In Wanilla, Car (driver) is the majority at 63%; Worked at home is next at 38%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport is nonexistent in Wanilla, with zero stops and zero routes. This is far below the South Australian average of 5 stops per 1,000 people.

0.00

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).

0.0

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

Scheduled weekly public-transport departures from stops in the area, per 1,000 residents — how often transit actually runs, not just whether a stop exists (GTFS schedules for a representative week; population from the 2021 Census).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Wanilla [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41531/wanilla/topic/transport