Augusta - Margaret River - Busselton · Sub-region (SA3)

Transport & Vehicles in Augusta - Margaret River - Busselton

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

Only 3% of homes in Augusta - Margaret River - Busselton have no motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average. This makes the region one of the most car-dependent areas in the country. Most households own multiple cars to get around the large landscape.

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📍 Augusta - Margaret River - Busselton, Sub-region (SA3)

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high here, with 42% of homes owning two vehicles and another 21.5% owning three or more. The proportion of homes without a car has fallen to 3% since 2011, which is much lower than most other areas.

3.0% ▼ -34.2%

Lower than 88% of sub-region (sa3) areas.

  • 2011: 4.5%
  • 2016: 3.1%
  • 2021: 3.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Augusta - Margaret River - Busselton, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 1 vehicle (34%) and 3 vehicles (14%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the dominant way to travel, with 61.1% of workers driving themselves to work. Very few people use public transport for their commute, at just 1.2%, while 10.1% work from home—a figure far below the national average.

10.1% ▲ +37.9%

Lower than 72% of sub-region (sa3) areas.

  • 2011: 7.4%
  • 2016: 7.5%
  • 2021: 10.1%

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

1.2% ▼ -0.9%

Lower than 62% of sub-region (sa3) areas.

  • 2011: 1.2%
  • 2016: 1.7%
  • 2021: 1.2%

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.

How people get to work

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In Augusta - Margaret River - Busselton, Car (driver) is the majority at 75%; Worked at home is next at 12%.

Public transport access

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

While the area has 294 public transport stops and 4 routes, all are bus services. Service levels are low, with weekly departures per 1,000 people far below the Western Australian figure.

5.13

Higher than 65% of sub-region (sa3) areas.

Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).

190.7

Lower than 72% of sub-region (sa3) 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Augusta - Margaret River - Busselton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/50101/augusta-margaret-river-busselton/topic/transport