6.1% ▼ -38.3%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.8%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bunbury · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Bunbury
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 64% of workers in Bunbury drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. While the area has far more public transport stops than most similar places, very few people actually use them to commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have one or two cars, but 6.1% of households have no motor vehicle at all. This is a much higher figure than in most other areas, though it remains a little below the national average.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Bunbury, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 45%, followed by 2 vehicles (37%) and 3 vehicles (9%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Only 1.7% of workers use public transport and just 6.3% work from home, which is far below the national figure. Instead, 7.5% of the workforce chooses to walk to their jobs.
6.3% ▲ +56.9%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 6.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.7% ▼ -45.7%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 1.7%
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.
Bunbury provides excellent access to services with 35 stops and 11 routes, which are among the largest totals for an area of this size. There are 8.87 stops per 1,000 people, a figure far above the Western Australian average.
35
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
8.87
Higher than 87% 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).
1,425.0
Higher than 89% 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).
11
Higher than 86% 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.
Walking to the nearest stop takes only 2 minutes on average, which is much lower than in most areas. However, the drive time to the city is 104 minutes, which is higher than most areas.
2
Lower than 86% 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.
104
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.
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 Bunbury [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50210/bunbury/topic/transport