0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Coolup · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Coolup
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Not a single home in Coolup is without a motor vehicle, a figure well below the state and national averages. This total reliance on cars shapes how people move, with the vast majority of residents driving to work and almost no one using public transport.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have multiple cars, with 27.3% owning four or more and 31.1% having two. This high level of ownership means no one in the area relies on alternatives to a motor vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Coolup splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (33%) and 4 or more (29%), with 3 vehicles at 21%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to travel, with 54.2% of workers being the driver. While 12.1% work from home—which is well above the Western Australian figure—no one in the area commutes using public transport.
12.1% ▼ -0.1%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 12.4%
- 2021: 12.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 0.0%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is very limited, as no one can reach other people within 45 minutes using transit. Although the area has one bus route and one stop, weekly departures are far below the state average.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.38
Higher than 67% 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).
9.5
Higher than 58% 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).
1
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
0
Lower than 99% 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).
0
Lower than 99% 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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting around without a car is difficult, as it takes a typical resident 34 minutes to walk to the nearest stop. The drive time to the city is 64 minutes.
34
Higher than 70% 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.
64
Lower than 53% 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 Coolup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50330/coolup/topic/transport