Dumberning · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Dumberning

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

Car reliance has remained absolute in Dumberning, where every single household owns at least one motor vehicle. This makes the area far more vehicle-dependent than the state and national averages, with a tiny fraction of the workforce choosing to work from home.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home in Dumberning has a car, which is well below the state and national figures for households without a vehicle. More than half of all homes own three or more vehicles.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Dumberning splits fairly evenly between 3 vehicles (32%) and 2 vehicles (30%), with 4 or more at 20%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

About 17% of people work from home, a figure well above the Western Australian average. No one uses public transport to get to work, as most rely on cars or walking.

17.0% ▲ +73.3%

Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 9.8%
  • 2016: 8.1%
  • 2021: 17.0%

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: 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 Dumberning, Car (driver) is the majority at 58%; Worked at home is next at 22%.

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 transit access and departures per person.

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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).

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.

Driving to the city takes 123 minutes, which is much higher than most similar areas.

123

Higher 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)).
  • 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 Dumberning [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50436/dumberning/topic/transport