4.2% ▼ -61.9%
Lower than 78% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 9.2%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lalor · Federal Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Lalor
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer homes lack a car in Lalor than in most similar areas, with only 4.2% of households without a vehicle. This heavy reliance on cars is matched by a significant shift in how people work, as the number of residents working from home jumped 20 percentage points since 2016.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households here own multiple cars, with 41.1% having two vehicles and 12.1% having three. The proportion of homes with no motor vehicle has fallen sharply since 2011, leaving it well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Lalor splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (41%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Over half of workers drive to work, while 22.7% now work from home, which is a little above the Australian figure. Public transport use for commuting is higher than in most similar areas, though it fell 7.4 percentage points since 2016.
22.7% —
Higher than 68% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 22.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.4% —
Higher than 62% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 3.4%
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.
Public transport access is limited, with only 3.72 stops per 1,000 people, which is much lower than most areas. The network is almost entirely based on buses, which make up 97.6% of the available modes.
749
Lower than 57% of federal electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.72
Lower than 75% of federal electorate areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
1,026.9
Lower than 53% of federal electorate 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).
31
Lower than 86% of federal electorate areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
While the drive to the city typically takes 32 minutes, it is much faster than most similar areas to reach a transit stop, with a typical walk of just 2 minutes.
2
Lower than 86% of federal electorate areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
32
Higher than 57% of federal electorate 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 Lalor [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED228/lalor/topic/transport