4.0% ▼ -28.3%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.6%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Beverley · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Beverley
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every home in Beverley relies on a car for daily travel, as only 4% of households have no motor vehicle. This heavy dependence on driving is clear in the local work patterns, where nearly 60% of people drive themselves to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households are well-equipped for travel, with 36.2% owning two vehicles and 16.4% owning three. The 4% of homes without a car is about the same as the Western Australian figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Beverley splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 1 vehicle (33%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, while 10.5% of people work from home, which is well above the state average. Only 1.9% of residents use public transport to commute, a figure that is a little below both the state and national levels.
10.5% ▼ -20.3%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.2%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.9% ▼ -7.1%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 1.9%
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.
Public transport is limited to a single bus route and one stop. While the number of stops is higher than in about 67% of similar areas, the weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the Western Australian 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.
0.90
Higher than 61% 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).
10.8
Higher than 58% 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).
1
Higher than 71% 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.
Getting around without a car is difficult, as the walk to the nearest transport stop takes 35 minutes, which is higher than most areas. The drive time to the city is 82 minutes.
35
Higher than 71% 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.
82
Higher than 58% 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 Beverley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50116/beverley/topic/transport