3.1% ▼ -35.1%
Lower than 79% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 4.9%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 3.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Busselton · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Busselton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than 62% of workers in Busselton rely on driving themselves to get to work. This high level of car use is reflected in the home life here, where only 3.1% of households have no motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have two cars (41%) or one car (34.4%). The proportion of households without a vehicle is much lower than in most areas, and has fallen from 4.9% in 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Busselton, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (34%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here than across Australia, though it rose to 9.2% in 2021. Very few people use public transport to get to work, at just 1.2%.
9.2% ▲ +40.9%
Lower than 69% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 6.5%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 9.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.2% ▼ -7.7%
Higher than 54% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 1.2%
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.
Busselton has 285 public transport stops, which is more than 76% of similar areas. While it has a high number of stops per person compared to the state, the number of weekly departures is far below the Western Australian figure.
285
Higher than 75% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
7.01
Higher than 88% of council (lga) areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
265.7
Higher than 64% of council (lga) 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).
4
Lower than 57% of council (lga) 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Busselton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA51260/busselton/topic/transport