0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Alma · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Alma
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Working from home has become a dominant trend in Alma, where nearly 39% of residents now do so. This shifts the local transport story away from traditional commutes, as the area has no public transport options and relies almost entirely on private vehicles.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Alma has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure. A quarter of households are especially well-equipped with four or more vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Alma splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (30%) and 2 vehicles (27%), with 4 or more at 23%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
With no one using public transport, 42.6% of workers drive to their jobs while 38.9% work from home. This rate of working from home is far above both the state and national figures.
38.9% —
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 21.0%
- 2021: 38.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 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 Alma. This means local access to transit is far below the Western Australian 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).
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)).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Alma [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50014/alma/topic/transport