5.6% ▼ -13.6%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Cable Beach · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Cable Beach
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero public transport stops are found across Cable Beach, making the area almost entirely dependent on private cars. Most households keep at least one vehicle, and very few people work from home or use transit to get to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have two cars, accounting for 38.3% of households. While 5.6% of homes have no motor vehicle—which is much higher than most areas—this is about the same as the Western Australian figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Cable Beach splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (34%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 63.7% of people as the driver. Only 4.6% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
4.6% ▲ +46.3%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▼ -39.4%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.7%
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.
Public transport is virtually non-existent here, with no routes or stops serving the area. This means weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the Western Australian figure of 1,623.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Cable Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50231/cable-beach/topic/transport