3.8% ▲ +34.6%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Big Grove · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Big Grove
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero percent of working residents use public transport to commute in Big Grove. This makes the area almost entirely dependent on cars, despite having a higher number of public transport stops per person than most similar places.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have one or two cars, though 3.8% of households have no motor vehicle. This is higher than most similar areas, but well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Big Grove, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 43%, followed by 2 vehicles (34%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, with 65% of people as the driver. About 17.5% of people work from home, which is well above the Western Australian figure.
17.5% ▲ +530.0%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 9.9%
- 2021: 17.5%
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.
While Big Grove has one bus route and one stop, the service is very limited. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the state 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.
4.44
Higher than 75% 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).
44.4
Higher than 62% 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.
The walk to the nearest public transport stop typically takes 5 minutes, which is lower than in most similar areas.
5
Lower than 68% 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.
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 Big Grove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50121/big-grove/topic/transport