0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.2%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Peats Ridge · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Peats Ridge
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Private cars are essential for almost every home in Peats Ridge, where not a single household lacks a motor vehicle. This heavy reliance on cars is mirrored in the way people get to work, with very few using public transport.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here own multiple cars, with 84.5% having two or more vehicles. This explains why 0.0% of households are without a car, a figure well below the national level of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Peats Ridge splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (33%) and 4 or more (28%), with 3 vehicles at 25%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here, with 37.2% of the workforce doing so—far above the Australian figure of 21.0%. Meanwhile, 0.0% of residents use public transport to get to work, which is well below the national average.
37.2% ▲ +52.8%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.3%
- 2016: 25.3%
- 2021: 37.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 largely unavailable in the area, with zero stops or routes serving the community. This means zero people can be reached within 45 minutes by transit, and the number of stops per 1,000 people is far below the state figure.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
Lower than 99% 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).
0.0
Lower than 99% 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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality 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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality 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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
The area is quite isolated from transit, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 70 minutes, which is much higher than most areas. The drive time to the city is 51 minutes.
70
Higher than 91% 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.
51
Lower than 61% 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)).
- 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).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Peats Ridge [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13183/peats-ridge/topic/transport