7.8% ▼ -40.4%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 7.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Port Wakefield · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Port Wakefield
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero people in Port Wakefield use public transport to get to work. This reliance on private travel is clear, as about 36% of homes keep two vehicles and 15% have three or more.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have at least one car, though 7.8% of households have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Port Wakefield splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (34%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, with 67.4% of people as the driver. Only 6.1% work from home, a figure far below the national level.
6.1% ▲ +11.3%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.5%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 6.1%
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.
Bus services are the only option here, but the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state figure.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.51
Higher than 63% 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).
34.8
Higher than 61% 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).
4
Higher than 82% 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.
A 46-minute walk to the nearest stop is much higher than most areas, and the drive to the city typically takes 66 minutes.
46
Higher than 77% 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.
66
Lower than 52% 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 Port Wakefield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41215/port-wakefield/topic/transport