3.2% ▼ -25.6%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 3.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Picnic Point · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Picnic Point
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Higher than most similar areas, 43.9% of workers in Picnic Point work from home. This reflects a community where most households rely heavily on private cars and very few people use public transport for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are very common here, with 45.6% of homes owning two vehicles and 10.5% owning four or more. Only 3.2% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Picnic Point, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 1 vehicle (26%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far more common here than across Australia, where the figure is 21%. While 32.3% of people drive to work, only 1.3% use public transport, which is a little below the state average.
43.9% ▲ +935.8%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 43.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.3% ▼ -85.5%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 1.3%
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 based entirely on buses, with 23 stops and two routes serving the area. Despite having more stops than most similar places, the 73-minute transit time to the city is much higher than in other areas.
23
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.59
Higher than 72% 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).
537.3
Higher than 79% 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).
2
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
15,994
Higher than 69% 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).
63,698
Higher than 70% 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).
73
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality 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.
The area is well connected by road, with a drive time to the city of 26 minutes, which is much lower than most areas. It is also easy to reach transit, with a typical 4-minute walk to the nearest stop.
4
Lower than 71% 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.
26
Lower than 78% 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 Picnic Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13211/picnic-point/topic/transport