3.1% ▼ -14.8%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 3.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Attadale · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Attadale
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Just 14 minutes of driving separates Attadale from the city, making it much faster to reach the center than in most other areas. While car travel remains the main way people get around, the suburb has an impressive number of public transport stops and routes compared to similar places.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have at least one car, with 44.1% owning two vehicles. Only 3.1% of households have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the Western Australian figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Attadale, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 1 vehicle (30%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
About 63.7% of workers drive themselves to work, while 11.1% work from home. This number of home workers is well above the Western Australian average but well below the national figure.
11.1% ▲ +104.2%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.9% ▼ -24.8%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 3.9%
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 is well served with 26 public transport stops and 5 routes, which are both higher than about 88% of similar areas. All public transport here is provided by buses, with a typical trip to the city taking 48 minutes.
26
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.92
Higher than 73% 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).
1,010.1
Higher than 86% 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).
5
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
57,221
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
48
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport + walking time, in minutes, from the area to its capital city centre on a weekday morning (R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network). Blank where no scheduled service connects the area to the city.
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to a transit point is very easy here, with a typical walk to the nearest stop taking only 3 minutes, which is much lower than most areas.
3
Lower than 79% 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.
14
Lower than 90% 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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- 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 Attadale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50035/attadale/topic/transport