Broomehill West · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Broomehill West

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

A strong reliance on private cars has remained the norm in Broomehill West, where not a single home is without a motor vehicle. This shift away from public options is clear, with about a quarter of the workforce now working from home.

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📍 Broomehill West, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high here, with 37% of homes owning four or more vehicles. This is reflected in the fact that 0% of households lack a motor vehicle, a figure well below both the state and national averages.

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.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Broomehill West, the largest group is 4 or more at 37%, followed by 2 vehicles (22%) and 3 vehicles (22%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work for 60.7% of residents, though 24.7% work from home, which is far above the Western Australian figure. No one in the area commutes using public transport.

24.7% ▼ -10.1%

Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 27.5%
  • 2016: 22.8%
  • 2021: 24.7%

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 West, Car (driver) is the majority at 60%; Worked at home is next at 24%.

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 the community with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, a result far below the state average.

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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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Broomehill West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50193/broomehill-west/topic/transport