7.0% —
Higher than 70% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Goldfields · Sub-region (SA3)
Transport & Vehicles in Goldfields
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Driving a car is the dominant way to get around Goldfields, with 65.7% of workers commuting as the driver. This reliance on private travel is reflected in a transport network that is far smaller and less frequent than the state average.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, and 37.6% have two. Around 7.0% of households have no motor vehicle, which is a little above the Western Australian figure and has barely changed since 2016.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Goldfields, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people work from home here; at 2.4%, this is far below the national figure of 21.0%. Public transport use for commuting is about the same as the Australian average, though it fell 1.9 points since 2016.
2.4% —
Lower than 99% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 2.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.4% —
Higher than 67% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 3.4%
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.
Public transport is limited, with only 8 routes and 166 stops. The number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Western Australian figure, and services are almost entirely buses.
166
Lower than 70% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.34
Lower than 52% 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).
247.3
Lower than 70% 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).
8
Lower than 84% of sub-region (sa3) 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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Goldfields [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/51103/goldfields/topic/transport