Bruce Rock · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Bruce Rock

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

Private cars are the primary lifeline for Bruce Rock, where almost every household owns a vehicle to get around. Only 3.4% of homes lack a motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average of 7.4%.

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📍 Bruce Rock, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households have multiple cars, with 40.1% owning two and 14.1% owning three. While fewer homes are without a vehicle than in most of Australia, this is slightly below the Western Australian figure.

3.4% ▼ -51.2%

Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 7.0%
  • 2016: 9.8%
  • 2021: 3.4%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Bruce Rock splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (34%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the most common way to get to work for 58.1% of people. Those who work from home make up 13.4% of the workforce, which is well above the state figure but well below the national average.

13.4% ▲ +2.6%

Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 13.1%
  • 2016: 11.1%
  • 2021: 13.4%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

1.0% ▲ +7.7%

Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.9%
  • 2016: 2.0%
  • 2021: 1.0%

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 Bruce Rock, Car (driver) is the majority at 67%; Worked at home is next at 15%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in Bruce Rock. This means the area is far below the Western Australian average for both stop numbers and weekly departures.

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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).

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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 Bruce Rock [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50196/bruce-rock/topic/transport