Bencubbin · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Bencubbin

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Car ownership has remained essential in Bencubbin, where not a single home is without a motor vehicle. While the town lacks its own public transport stops and routes, a small number of workers still use transit to get to their jobs. Most residents rely on their own cars or work from home.

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📍 Bencubbin, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home in Bencubbin has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the state and national figures. More than half of all households own two or more cars, with 14.1% having four or more.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.5%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Bencubbin splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (36%) and 2 vehicles (33%), with 3 vehicles at 17%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

About 16.8% of people work from home, which is well above the Western Australia figure. While 46.5% of workers drive themselves, 5.9% use public transport, a rate that is a little above the national average.

16.8% ▼ -8.5%

Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 18.4%
  • 2016: 16.1%
  • 2021: 16.8%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

5.9% ▲ +222.8%

Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 1.8%
  • 2016: 2.5%
  • 2021: 5.9%

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.

How people get to work

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In Bencubbin, Car (driver) is the majority at 51%; Worked at home is next at 18%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

There are no public transport stops or routes in Bencubbin. This means the number of stops and weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state average.

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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).

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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).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Bencubbin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50106/bencubbin/topic/transport