5.6% ▲ —
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wandering · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Wandering
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people here rely on public transport for their commute than in most similar areas, though the town itself lacks any formal transit services. Wandering is a car-dependent community where 80 minutes is the usual drive time to the city.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own multiple cars, with 38.4% having two and 22.4% having three. A small number of homes, 5.6%, have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Wandering, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 3 vehicles (22%) and 1 vehicle (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
While 53.1% of workers drive to work, 10.9% work from home, a figure well above the Western Australian average. Just 2% use public transport, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
10.9% ▼ -54.9%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.2%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 10.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.0% ▲ +20.4%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 2.0%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure far below the state average.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
The drive time to the city is 80 minutes, which is around the middle for areas of this type.
80
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
- Public transport timetables (GTFS) — State & territory transport agencies, 2026 (CC BY 4.0 (WA: custom PTA licence)).
- Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).
More for Wandering
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Wandering [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51518/wandering/topic/transport