Corrimal · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Corrimal

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

A shift towards flexible work is the biggest change in Corrimal, where 25.5% of people now work from home. While most residents still rely on cars, the area has a very high level of public transport access compared to similar places.

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📍 Corrimal, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

About 9.6% of homes in Corrimal have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas. Most households keep one or two cars, with 38.5% owning one and 35.9% owning two.

9.6% ▼ -29.9%

Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 13.6%
  • 2016: 11.3%
  • 2021: 9.6%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Corrimal splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 10%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Nearly half of workers drive themselves to work, but 25.5% work from home, which is well above the national figure. Only 1.6% use public transport to commute, a rate that is a little below the state and national averages.

25.5% ▲ +700.5%

Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.2%
  • 2016: 3.4%
  • 2021: 25.5%

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

1.6% ▼ -67.2%

Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 5.0%
  • 2016: 4.4%
  • 2021: 1.6%

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 Corrimal, Car (driver) is the majority at 61%; Worked at home is next at 32%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is very accessible here, with 36 stops and 9 routes, among the largest numbers for this level of area. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are also a little above the state average, with buses making up 98.8% of services.

5.16

Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.

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

1,542.9

Higher than 89% of suburb / locality 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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

It takes about 7 minutes to walk to the nearest transport stop, which is around the middle for similar areas. The drive time to the city is 60 minutes.

7

Lower than 61% of suburb / locality 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.

60

Lower than 56% of suburb / locality 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)).
  • Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Corrimal [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11082/corrimal/topic/transport