Copley · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Copley

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Every single home in Copley now has a motor vehicle, reflecting a total reliance on cars for travel. This makes the area much less likely to be without a car compared to the state or national figures.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Cars are essential here, with 63.7% of homes owning three or more vehicles. This is a stark contrast to the state and national figures, where about 5% to 7% of households have no vehicle at all.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Copley, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 47%, followed by 4 or more (35%) and 3 vehicles (18%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Half of the workforce drives to work, while 14.7% work from home, which is well above the Western Australia figure. No one here uses public transport to get to their job.

14.7%

Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 19.4%
  • 2021: 14.7%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Copley, Car (driver) is the majority at 77%; Worked at home is next at 23%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport is non-existent in the area, with zero stops and routes. This puts Copley far below the state average for the number of stops and departures per 1,000 people.

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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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Living in a rural setting, the typical drive time to the city is 66 minutes.

66

Lower than 52% 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 Copley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50337/copley/topic/transport