0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Beacon · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Beacon
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more people work from home in Beacon than in most similar areas, with 25.4% of the workforce doing so. This remote profile is reflected in the total lack of public transport and a very high reliance on private cars to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Beacon has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the 5.0% of households without a car seen across Western Australia. Nearly 45% of homes have two vehicles, and about 15% have four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Beacon, 2 vehicles is the majority at 53%; 1 vehicle is next at 23%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%. Instead, 47.8% of workers drive a car and a further 25.4% work from home, a figure far above the state average of 7.5%.
25.4% ▼ -0.4%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.5%
- 2016: 32.2%
- 2021: 25.4%
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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in Beacon, leaving it far below the Western Australian average for service access. This means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people.
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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Beacon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50085/beacon/topic/transport