6515, WA · Postcode

Transport & Vehicles in 6515, WA

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Not a single home in postcode 6515 is without a motor vehicle. This total reliance on cars defines travel in the area, where nearly half of the workforce drives to work and almost a quarter work from home.

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📍 6515, WA, Postcode

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is universal here, with 39.3% of homes having two vehicles and 18.9% owning four or more. This is well below the national figure for homes without a car, which sits at 7.4%.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of postcode areas.

  • 2011: 1.7%
  • 2016: 2.4%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In 6515, WA, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (24%) and 4 or more (19%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

While 49.7% of people drive to work, 23.9% work from home, which is far above the Western Australian figure of 7.5%. No one in the area uses public transport to commute, a trend that has barely changed since 2011.

23.9% ▼ -6.8%

Higher than 73% of postcode areas.

  • 2011: 25.7%
  • 2016: 21.6%
  • 2021: 23.9%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of postcode areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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.

How people get to work

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In 6515, WA, Car (driver) is the majority at 59%; Worked at home is next at 28%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

The area has 9.29 public transport stops per 1,000 people, far above the state average, though only one bus route serves the region. Despite these stops, weekly departures are far below the Western Australian figure.

9.29

Higher than 87% 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).

49.5

Lower than 60% 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).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in 6515, WA [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA6515/6515-wa/topic/transport