0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Boorara Brook · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Boorara Brook
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Boorara Brook stands out among similar areas for its high rates of working from home and public transport use. While almost every home owns a car, about 34.5% of the workforce avoids a commute entirely by working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Not a single home in Boorara Brook is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the 7.4% national figure. Most households own two cars, though 15.2% have four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Boorara Brook splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (33%) and 1 vehicle (32%), with 3 vehicles at 18%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far more common here than in the rest of Australia, at 34.5%. Interestingly, those who do commute by public transport make up 8.6% of the workforce, which is well above the state average of 4.7%.
34.5% —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 27.9%
- 2021: 34.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
8.6% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 8.6%
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.
Despite the higher use of public transport for work, there are no actual transport stops or routes within the area. This puts the location far below the Western Australian average for service access.
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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Boorara Brook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50151/boorara-brook/topic/transport