4.7% ▲ +50.8%
Lower than 69% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
O'Connor · Federal Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in O'Connor
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer public transport trips are made in O'Connor compared to the state average, highlighting a heavy reliance on private cars. Only 1.8% of workers use public transport to get to their jobs, and very few people work from home. This makes the area much more dependent on vehicles than most other parts of Australia.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in O'Connor have multiple cars, with 37.4% owning two and 26.2% owning three or more. Only 4.7% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is about the same as the Western Australian average but slightly lower than the national figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In O'Connor, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 37%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way people get to work, with 63% of workers driving themselves. Very few people use public transport at 1.8%, and those working from home make up 8.7% of the workforce, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
8.7% —
Lower than 81% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 8.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.8% —
Lower than 61% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 1.8%
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 is scarce here, with weekly departures per 1,000 people being far below the Western Australian figure. The area has 631 stops and 29 routes, which are both smaller than most similar areas, and 98.6% of the remaining services are buses.
631
Lower than 75% of federal electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.58
Lower than 78% 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).
116.4
Lower than 96% 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).
29
Lower than 87% of federal electorate areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in O'Connor [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED511/o-connor/topic/transport