2.6% ▲ +11.1%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 2.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Currambine · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Currambine
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 2.6% of Currambine households lack a motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average. This highlights a heavy reliance on cars in the area, though public transport use for commuting is among the highest for similar places.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 42.8% owning two vehicles and 16.8% owning three. The proportion of households without a vehicle is much lower than the Australian figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Currambine, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (29%) and 3 vehicles (17%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 61.3% of residents. Public transport use for commuting is 6.8%, which is well above the national figure of 3.1%, while the 7.8% who work from home is far below the Australian average.
7.8% ▲ +180.4%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 7.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
6.8% ▼ -30.0%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.7%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 6.8%
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.
Currambine has 13 public transport stops and 6 routes, which is more than most similar areas. While weekly departures are much higher than typical areas, the 67-minute transit time to the city is higher than most.
13
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.90
Higher than 65% 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).
407.2
Higher than 77% 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).
6
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
13,819
Higher than 65% 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).
37,401
Higher than 59% 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).
67
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport + walking time, in minutes, from the area to its capital city centre on a weekday morning (R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network). Blank where no scheduled service connects the area to the city.
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
The drive time to the city is 21 minutes, which is much lower than most areas. It takes about 7 minutes to walk to the nearest stop, which is around the middle for similar places.
7
Lower than 61% 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.
21
Lower than 82% 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 Currambine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50367/currambine/topic/transport