2.8% ▼ -44.5%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 2.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Dumbleyung · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Dumbleyung
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A 77-minute walk to the nearest stop makes Dumbleyung an area where residents rely heavily on their own cars. Almost every home owns at least one vehicle, and the typical household has two, reflecting the town's remote nature and limited public options.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have two cars, with 43.4% of households owning two and 13.2% owning four or more. Only 2.8% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the Western Australian figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Dumbleyung, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 4 or more (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Half of all workers drive themselves to work, and 14.5% walk. While 13.7% of people work from home—well above the Western Australian figure—no one in the area commutes using public transport.
13.7% ▲ +55.6%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 14.5%
- 2021: 13.7%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is very limited, with only one bus route and one stop available. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the state figure.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.34
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).
16.7
Higher than 59% 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).
1
Higher than 71% 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.
Walking to the nearest transport stop takes around 77 minutes, which is among the highest times for areas of this type.
77
Higher than 95% 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.
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 Dumbleyung [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50437/dumbleyung/topic/transport