5.7% ▼ -27.9%
Higher than 60% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 7.9%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Merredin · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Merredin
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer people use public transport in Merredin than in most similar areas, with a heavy reliance on private cars. Only 1.0% of the workforce uses public transit to get to work, while the vast majority of residents rely on their own vehicles to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 36.2% owning two vehicles. While 5.7% of households have no motor vehicle, this is a drop from 7.9% in 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Merredin splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 1 vehicle (33%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 66% of people being the driver. Very few people work from home at 7.3%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
7.3% ▲ +8.8%
Lower than 78% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 7.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.0% ▼ -44.5%
Higher than 50% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 1.0%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport options are very limited, with only two routes and four stops. The number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is 15.4, which is far below the Western Australian figure of 1,623.
4
Lower than 70% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.28
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).
15.4
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).
2
Lower than 67% of council (lga) areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
It takes a typical resident about 21 minutes to walk to the nearest public transport stop, which is around the middle for its level.
21
Higher than 56% of council (lga) 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.
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).
More for Merredin
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Merredin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA55460/merredin/topic/transport