Broomehill Village · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Broomehill Village

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

Every single home in Broomehill Village has a motor vehicle, making cars essential for daily life. While the area has a few public transport options, the vast majority of residents rely on their own cars to get around.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is universal here, which is well below the national figure where 7.4% of homes have no vehicle. About 36% of households have two cars, and 14% have four or more.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 6.7%
  • 2016: 6.4%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Broomehill Village splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 4 or more at 15%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work, with 71.1% of people as drivers and 7.9% as passengers. No one commutes by public transport, and the 9.2% who work from home is far below the Australian figure of 21%.

9.2% ▲ +6.6%

Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 8.6%
  • 2016: 3.6%
  • 2021: 9.2%

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.

How people get to work

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In Broomehill Village, Car (driver) is the majority at 74%; Worked at home is next at 10%.

Public transport access

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

There are three bus routes and one stop in the area, which is more than most similar places. However, the 61.6 weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Western Australian figure of 1,623.

4.74

Higher than 76% 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).

61.6

Higher than 64% 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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

It takes a typical resident about 9 minutes to walk to the nearest public transport stop, which is around the middle for its level.

9

Lower than 56% 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 Broomehill Village [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50192/broomehill-village/topic/transport