0.8% ▲ —
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 0.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Chittering · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Chittering
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost no one in Chittering is without a car, with only 0.8% of homes lacking a motor vehicle. This makes the area far more dependent on private transport than the rest of Australia. Most households here own multiple vehicles to get around the region.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Over 80% of homes have three or more vehicles, while only 0.8% have none. This rate of car-less homes is well below the Western Australian figure of 5.0%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Chittering, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 4 or more (20%) and 3 vehicles (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most workers drive themselves to work, with 62.4% as the sole driver. Those working from home make up 10.1% of the workforce, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
10.1% ▲ +29.6%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 8.5%
- 2021: 10.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.9% ▲ +18.4%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 1.9%
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 no public transport routes or stops in the area. This leaves the region far below the Western Australian average for service access.
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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
The typical drive time to the city is 40 minutes, which is lower than most similar areas.
40
Lower than 67% 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 Chittering [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50291/chittering/topic/transport