0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Brown Range · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Brown Range
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than half of workers in Brown Range drive themselves to work, with 56.9% using a car. While car use is common, a surprising 20.7% of people work from home, which is far above the Western Australian figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Brown Range has at least one motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure, with 43.8% of households owning two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Brown Range, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 1 vehicle (38%) and 3 vehicles (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use for commuting is 6.9%, which is well above the Australian average. However, those who do not drive often work from home, a trend far more common here than in the rest of Western Australia.
20.7% ▲ +95.8%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.6%
- 2016: 13.4%
- 2021: 20.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
6.9% ▼ -29.3%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.8%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 6.9%
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 8 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is well above the state average. Despite this, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Western Australian 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.
8.00
Higher than 86% 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).
72.0
Higher than 65% 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.
Getting to the nearest transport stop takes longer here than in most areas, with a typical walk of 26 minutes.
26
Higher than 63% 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 Brown Range [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50195/brown-range/topic/transport