Dewars Pool · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Dewars Pool

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

Almost every household in Dewars Pool owns a car, as the area relies heavily on private vehicles for travel. This is a car-dependent place where 38.5% of homes have three vehicles and public transport is non-existent.

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📍 Dewars Pool, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

No homes in the area are without a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households are well-equipped, with 19.2% owning four or more vehicles.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Dewars Pool, the largest group is 3 vehicles at 38%, followed by 1 vehicle (23%) and 2 vehicles (19%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 62.2% of people as the driver and 8.1% as passengers. While 10.8% work from home, which is well above the state average, no one uses public transport to commute.

How people get to work

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In Dewars Pool, Car (driver) is the majority at 77%; Worked at home is next at 13%.

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 means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure far below the Western Australian average of 1,623.

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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).

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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.

The typical drive time to the city is 74 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.

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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 Dewars Pool [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50407/dewars-pool/topic/transport