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.
Bovell · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Bovell
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than 70% of working residents in Bovell drive themselves to work. This reliance on cars is reflected in the home garages, as not a single household in the area is without a motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every home here owns multiple cars, with 47.7% having two and 24.2% having three. This means Bovell has a much lower rate of vehicle-free homes than both Western Australia and the national figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Bovell, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 48%, followed by 3 vehicles (24%) and 4 or more (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant choice, while only 1.3% of people use public transport to get to work. The proportion of people working from home is 9.3%, which is far below the Australian figure.
9.3% ▲ +44.7%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 9.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.3% ▼ -21.1%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.3%
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 the area. This leaves Bovell far below Western Australia for both the number of stops and 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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Access to transit is very limited, with the typical walk to the nearest stop taking 22 minutes, which is higher than most areas.
22
Higher than 60% 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).
More for Bovell
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Bovell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50162/bovell/topic/transport