Wannamal · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Wannamal

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

A total reliance on private cars defines daily life in Wannamal, where not a single home is without a motor vehicle. With no public transport available, most residents either drive or work from home to avoid the 70-minute trip to the city.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home in Wannamal has at least one vehicle, which is well below the national figure where 7.4% of homes have none. Most households are well equipped, with 46.2% owning two cars and 30.8% owning four or more.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 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 Wannamal, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 49%, followed by 4 or more (32%) and 3 vehicles (11%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common here, with 26.9% of people doing so, a figure far above the Western Australian average of 7.5%. No one uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure.

26.9% ▼ -18.7%

Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 33.1%
  • 2016: 44.3%
  • 2021: 26.9%

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

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 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 Wannamal, the largest group is Car (driver) at 45%, followed by Worked at home (33%) and Walked (17%).

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, leaving residents far below the state average for transit access.

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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).

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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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The typical drive time to the city is 70 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.

70

Higher than 50% 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).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Wannamal [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51524/wannamal/topic/transport