14.3% ▼ -69.0%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 46.2%
- 2016: 28.0%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Cosmo Newbery · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Cosmo Newbery
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A far higher proportion of people use public transport to get to work in Cosmo Newbery than in most other areas. While 15.5% of workers use these services, the area is also marked by a lack of personal transport, with over 14% of homes owning no motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Homes without a motor vehicle are common here, at 14.3%, which is well above the figures for Western Australia and the rest of the country. Most households have only one vehicle, and none have two or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Cosmo Newbery, 1 vehicle is the majority at 73%; No vehicle is next at 27%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is non-existent here, sitting far below the national figure. Instead, people rely on a mix of transport, with 26.2% driving and 17.9% walking to work, alongside the high use of buses.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
15.5% ▲ —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2021: 15.5%
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.
Despite the high use of transit for commuting, there are no public transport stops or routes within the area. This is far below the Western Australian average for stops and departures per 1,000 people.
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 Cosmo Newbery [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50341/cosmo-newbery/topic/transport