1.4% ▼ -18.5%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 1.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Byford · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Byford
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 68% of workers in Byford drive themselves to work, highlighting a heavy reliance on cars. This is a place where almost every home owns a vehicle and few people work from home, though it does offer more public transport stops than most similar areas.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few homes here go without a car, at just 1.4%, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households own two vehicles, while 16.9% have three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Byford, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 1 vehicle (26%) and 3 vehicles (17%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Only 5% of people work from home, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%. While 2.4% of the workforce uses public transport to get to work, this is actually much higher than in most similar areas.
5.0% ▲ +114.1%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.4% ▼ -18.3%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 2.4%
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.
Byford has 95 public transport stops and 11 routes, which is among the largest for its size. However, the trip to the city is long, taking 82 minutes, and weekly departures per 1,000 people are well below the Western Australian figure.
95
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.03
Higher than 78% 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).
1,093.0
Higher than 87% 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).
20,471
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
20,471
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
82
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport + walking time, in minutes, from the area to its capital city centre on a weekday morning (R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network). Blank where no scheduled service connects the area to the city.
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to the nearest stop is very easy here, with a typical walk of just one minute. The drive time to the city is 33 minutes, which is lower than most similar areas.
1
Lower than 99% 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.
33
Lower 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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- 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 Byford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50230/byford/topic/transport