3.0% ▼ -38.9%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.9%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 3.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Pacific Paradise · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Pacific Paradise
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people now rely on cars in Pacific Paradise than in previous years, though a few key services remain accessible. Most homes here have at least one vehicle, and the typical resident spends about 75 minutes driving to the city.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 3% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households own one or two cars, with 44% having one and 39.1% having two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Pacific Paradise splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (44%) and 2 vehicles (39%), with 3 vehicles at 10%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people work from home here, at 8.6%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%. The vast majority of workers rely on cars, as 66.9% drive themselves to work.
8.6% ▲ +176.6%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 8.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.4% ▼ -44.6%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 1.4%
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 limited to buses, but the area has 6 stops and 2 routes. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are much higher than in most similar areas and sit at 721.1.
6
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.24
Higher than 66% 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).
721.1
Higher than 82% 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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to the nearest stop is quicker than in most areas, taking only 4 minutes on foot. The drive time to the city is around 75 minutes.
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.
75
Higher than 53% 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 Pacific Paradise [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32247/pacific-paradise/topic/transport