0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Skenes Creek · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Skenes Creek
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly half of all homes in Skenes Creek have a single motor vehicle, with every single household owning at least one car. This is a car-dependent area where working from home is far more common than the national figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
No home in Skenes Creek is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the 7.4% national figure. About 35% of households have two cars, while 15% own three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Skenes Creek, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 49%, followed by 2 vehicles (35%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here, with 30.9% of people doing so, which is well above the 21% national average. Nobody uses public transport to get to work.
30.9% ▲ +70.1%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.2%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 30.9%
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.
The area has four bus stops and three routes, which is more than most similar areas. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state figure.
4
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
16.06
Higher than 90% 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).
353.4
Higher than 76% 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).
3
Higher than 79% 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.
Getting around is challenging, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 30 minutes, which is higher than most areas. The drive time to the city is also much higher than in most other places, taking 127 minutes.
30
Higher than 67% 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.
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).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Skenes Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22286/skenes-creek/topic/transport