Warding East · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Warding East

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

Very few people here rely on public transport compared to most similar areas, making Warding East a place where private cars and home offices are essential. Almost every household owns a vehicle, and nearly a third of the workforce operates from home.

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📍 Warding East, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

No homes in the area are without a motor vehicle, which is well below the figures for both Western Australia and Australia. Most households are well-equipped, with 36.4% owning two vehicles and 22.7% owning four or more.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Warding East, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 47%, followed by 4 or more (29%) and 1 vehicle (24%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is far more common here than across the country, at 31.0%. This is much higher than most areas, while those who do leave the house almost exclusively drive themselves to work.

31.0%

Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 30.4%
  • 2021: 31.0%

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 Warding East, Car (driver) is the majority at 65%; Worked at home is next at 35%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes serving the area, which is far below the Western Australian average. Consequently, no one in the community uses public transport to get to work.

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The area is quite remote, with a typical drive time to the city of 114 minutes, which is much higher than most similar areas.

114

Higher than 77% 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 Warding East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51532/warding-east/topic/transport