12.6% ▼ -9.5%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.9%
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 12.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Geraldton · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Geraldton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over 12% of households in Geraldton have no motor vehicle, a figure well above the national rate. While the area has a high number of public transport stops, very few people use these services or work from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
A typical home here has one or two vehicles, but 12.6% of households have no car at all. This is well above the 5% seen across Western Australia and the 7.4% national figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Geraldton, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 45%, followed by 2 vehicles (30%) and No vehicle (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, and only 4.4% work from home, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%. Just 1.4% commute by public transport, a rate well below the state average.
4.4% ▲ +58.4%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 4.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.4% ▲ +18.6%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 1.4%
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.
Geraldton has 37 public transport stops across 13 routes, giving it 11.4 stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the Western Australian average. However, the weekly number of departures per 1,000 people is well below the state figure.
37
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
11.40
Higher than 88% 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).
1,077.6
Higher than 87% 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).
13
Higher than 86% 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.
Getting to a transit point is easy for many, as the typical walk to the nearest stop is only one minute, which is much lower than most 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.
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).
More for Geraldton
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Geraldton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50536/geraldton/topic/transport