1.5% ▼ -52.3%
Lower than 97% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 1.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Donnybrook-Balingup · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Donnybrook-Balingup
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 60% of workers in Donnybrook-Balingup drive themselves to work, highlighting a heavy reliance on cars. This is an area where almost every home owns a vehicle, and public transport plays a very small role in daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Private cars are essential here, with only 1.5% of homes having no motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure of 7.4%, and the proportion of carless homes has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Donnybrook-Balingup, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (29%) and 3 vehicles (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, while only 0.7% of people use public transport, which is well below the Western Australian average. About 11.4% of people work from home, a figure well above the state average but well below the national one.
11.4% ▲ +3.2%
Lower than 55% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 11.0%
- 2016: 10.2%
- 2021: 11.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▼ -37.5%
Lower than 57% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 1.1%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 very limited, with only 8 stops and 4 bus routes serving the area. With only 15.6 weekly departures per 1,000 people, access is far below the Western Australian figure.
8
Lower than 64% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.30
Lower than 69% 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).
15.6
Lower than 65% 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 Donnybrook-Balingup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA52870/donnybrook-balingup/topic/transport