6710, WA · Postcode

Transport & Vehicles in 6710, WA

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

Far fewer public transport options than most similar areas exist in postcode 6710, where there are no registered transit stops or routes. While car use is the main way to get around, the area has seen a significant drop in people using public transport to get to work since 2011.

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📍 6710, WA, Postcode

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have at least one car, with 38.5% owning two vehicles. The proportion of households without a motor vehicle is 5.5%, which is about the same as the Western Australian figure and has fallen 5.9 percentage points since 2011.

5.5% ▼ -51.8%

Higher than 67% of postcode areas.

  • 2011: 11.4%
  • 2016: 8.7%
  • 2021: 5.5%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In 6710, WA, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (17%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the most common way to travel, with 51% of workers as the driver. While 6.5% of people use public transport—a figure well above the national average—this is a sharp drop from the 27.6% who did so in 2011.

7.8% ▲ +348.0%

Lower than 86% of postcode areas.

  • 2011: 1.7%
  • 2016: 0.5%
  • 2021: 7.8%

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

6.5% ▼ -76.5%

Higher than 91% of postcode areas.

  • 2011: 27.6%
  • 2016: 60.4%
  • 2021: 6.5%

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 6710, WA, Car (driver) is the majority at 61%; Walked is next at 13%.

Public transport access

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

There is no public transport infrastructure in the area, with zero stops and routes. This puts the region far below the state average for both the number of stops and weekly departures per 1,000 people.

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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).

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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).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in 6710, WA [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA6710/6710-wa/topic/transport