4.8% ▼ -20.2%
Lower than 51% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 6.1%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Booragoon · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Transport & Vehicles in Booragoon
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more people use public transport to get to work in Booragoon than the national figure. This is a well-connected area where most households own at least one car, but public transport access is significantly higher than in most similar places.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 40% of homes have two vehicles, and only 4.8% of households have no motor vehicle. This is about the same as the Western Australia figure and slightly lower than the national average.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Booragoon splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use for work is 6.1%, which is well above the national figure. While 11.1% of people work from home—an increase of 6.1 percentage points since 2011—this is still well below the Australian average.
11.1% ▲ +122.6%
Lower than 64% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 5.0%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
6.1% ▼ -33.1%
Higher than 87% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 7.9%
- 2021: 6.1%
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.
Booragoon is very well served with 88 public transport stops and 18 routes, all of which are buses. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are well above the state figure, and over 100,000 people can be reached within 45 minutes by transit.
88
Higher than 85% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.69
Higher than 69% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
2,221.1
Higher than 86% of statistical area 2 (sa2) 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).
18
Higher than 84% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
33,221
Higher than 78% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
101,093
Higher than 72% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
45
Lower than 74% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Public-transport + walking time, in minutes, from the area to its capital city centre on a weekday morning (R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network). Blank where no scheduled service connects the area to the city.
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting around is efficient, with a typical one-minute walk to the nearest stop. The drive time to the city is only 12 minutes, which is much lower than in most other areas.
1
Lower than 93% of statistical area 2 (sa2) 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.
12
Lower than 83% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.
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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).
More for Booragoon
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Booragoon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/507041178/booragoon/topic/transport