10.7% ▼ -34.3%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.3%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Point Frederick · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Point Frederick
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Cars are the main way people get around Point Frederick, though 41.5% of workers drive while another 32.4% work from home. The area has a high number of public transport stops relative to its size, but very few people actually use them for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 10.7% of homes here have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas and well above the national figure of 7.4%. Nearly half of all households own just one car.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Point Frederick, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 48%, followed by 2 vehicles (31%) and No vehicle (11%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here, with 32.4% of people doing so—a figure far above the Australian average of 21.0%. Only 2.6% of residents use public transport to get to work, which is about the same as the state and national figures.
32.4% ▲ +477.8%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.6%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 32.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.6% ▼ -66.9%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 2.6%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport options are plentiful, with 18 routes and 9 stops, which is more than 81% of similar areas. Bus services are the only mode available, with weekly departures per person being about the same as the New South Wales figure.
9
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.41
Higher than 75% 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).
1,385.2
Higher than 88% 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).
18
Higher than 86% 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).
21,204
Higher than 50% 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.
It is very easy to reach transit here, with a typical 3-minute walk to the nearest stop, which is much lower than most areas. The drive time to the city is 56 minutes.
3
Lower than 79% 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.
56
Lower than 58% 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 Point Frederick [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13244/point-frederick/topic/transport