4.3% ▲ +1.3%
Lower than 62% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Yilgarn · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Yilgarn
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more people use public transport to get to work in Yilgarn than in the rest of the country. While most residents rely on cars, the area's transport patterns differ sharply from national trends. This is seen in the high use of trains for commuting and a very low number of people working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common here, with 67.7% of homes owning either one or two vehicles. Very few households lack a car, at just 4.3%, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Yilgarn splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (34%) and 1 vehicle (33%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is rare here, at 8.4%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%. However, 10.2% of people use public transport to commute, a rate well above both the state and national averages.
8.4% ▼ -5.4%
Lower than 73% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 8.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
10.2% ▼ -23.9%
Higher than 97% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 8.9%
- 2021: 10.2%
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.
Public transport is provided entirely by trains, with 8 stops and one route serving the area. While there are 6.82 stops per 1,000 people—higher than most areas—the number of weekly departures 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.
6.82
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).
61.4
Lower than 52% 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).
1
Lower than 71% 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 Yilgarn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA59360/yilgarn/topic/transport