1.5% —
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 1.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Dayton · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Dayton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer than 2% of homes lack a car in Dayton, making it much more likely for residents to own vehicles than the state or national average. This heavy reliance on cars is seen in daily travel, where the vast majority of people drive themselves to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have two cars, and only 1.5% have none, which is well below the 5% across Western Australia. About 14% of homes here keep three vehicles, and nearly 5% have four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Dayton, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 50%, followed by 1 vehicle (30%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to travel, with 70.8% of workers being the driver. Very few people work from home at 3.8%, a figure far below the 21% national average.
3.8% —
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.6% —
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 2.6%
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.
Public transport consists entirely of buses, with 19 stops and 3 routes serving the area. While the number of stops is higher than most similar areas, the weekly departures per 1,000 people are about the same as the state figure.
19
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.45
Higher than 71% 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).
1,541.1
Higher than 89% 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).
3
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
0
Lower than 99% 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).
64,060
Higher than 70% 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).
57
Lower than 51% 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.
It is very quick to reach local transport, with a typical 1-minute walk to the nearest stop. A drive to the city takes 19 minutes, which is much lower than in most other similar areas.
1
Lower than 99% 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.
19
Lower than 84% 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 Dayton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50397/dayton/topic/transport