Crooked Brook · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Crooked Brook

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

A total reliance on cars defines daily life in Crooked Brook, where not a single home lacks a motor vehicle. This car-dependent layout is reflected in the long 154-minute drive to the city and a complete absence of public transport options.

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📍 Crooked Brook, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Cars are essential here, with 86.8% of homes owning two or more vehicles. This means far fewer households are without a car compared to the 5% state average.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Crooked Brook, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 3 vehicles (24%) and 4 or more (18%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 63.8% of residents. While 17.7% work from home—a figure far above the Western Australian average—no one uses public transport for their commute.

17.7%

Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 11.5%
  • 2021: 17.7%

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 Crooked Brook, Car (driver) is the majority at 76%; Worked at home is next at 21%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This leaves the community far below the state average for service access, with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people.

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting around the region takes significant time, as the drive to the city is among the longest for similar areas at 154 minutes.

154

Higher than 90% 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 Crooked Brook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50354/crooked-brook/topic/transport