0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Dale · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Dale
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every home in Dale owns a car, making private vehicles essential for daily life. The area is very remote, with a typical drive to the city taking 75 minutes and no public transport options available.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single household here owns at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the Western Australian figure of 5%. Most families have multiple cars, with 35.8% owning two and nearly a quarter owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Dale, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 36%, followed by 4 or more (24%) and 3 vehicles (23%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common here, with 23.1% of people doing so—a figure far above the state average. No one uses public transport to get to work, and most others rely on driving themselves.
23.1% ▲ +2.3%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.6%
- 2016: 18.1%
- 2021: 23.1%
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: 2.9%
- 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.
There are no public transport routes or stops in the area. This means the number of weekly departures is far below the Western Australian figure.
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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
The drive time to the city is 75 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.
75
Higher 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)).
- 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 Dale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50372/dale/topic/transport