0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bookaar · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Bookaar
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every household in Bookaar owns a car, making private vehicles essential for daily life. With no public transport options available, residents rely heavily on driving or working from home, while the nearest city is over two hours away.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are universal here, with 0.0% of homes lacking a motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average. Nearly 30% of households own four or more vehicles, while 37.9% have two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Bookaar, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 4 or more (29%) and 1 vehicle (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common, with 35.6% of people doing so—a rate far above the Australian figure. For those who do travel, 51.7% drive themselves, and no one uses public transport to get to work.
35.6% ▲ +47.9%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.1%
- 2016: 19.5%
- 2021: 35.6%
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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the Victorian average.
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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
The area is remote, with a typical drive time to the city of 127 minutes, which is much higher than most similar areas.
127
Higher than 85% 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).
More for Bookaar
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Bookaar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20285/bookaar/topic/transport