7.5% ▲ +39.2%
Higher than 78% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 7.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
6437, WA · Postcode
Transport & Vehicles in 6437, WA
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than a third of residents in postcode 6437 use a car to drive themselves to work. This area has a unusual mix of transport habits, where a high number of people use public transport for commuting despite having no formal transit stops or routes recorded in the data.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost half of all homes have one vehicle, while 36.7% have two. About 7.5% of households have no motor vehicle, which is a little above the Western Australia figure and has risen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In 6437, WA, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 49%, followed by 2 vehicles (38%) and No vehicle (8%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use for work is among the highest at this level at 15.7%, which is far above the national figure, though this is 15 points lower than in 2011. Very few people work from home at 2.2%, a figure far below the Australian average.
2.2% ▲ +48.7%
Lower than 99% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
15.7% ▼ -48.3%
Higher than 99% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 30.3%
- 2016: 25.9%
- 2021: 15.7%
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.
There are no recorded public transport stops or routes in the area. This means the number of stops and weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Western Australian figure.
0
Lower than 99% of postcode areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
Lower than 99% of postcode areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
0.0
Lower than 99% of postcode 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).
0
Lower than 99% of postcode 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 6437, WA [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA6437/6437-wa/topic/transport