35.3% ▼ -10.8%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.6%
- 2016: 62.8%
- 2021: 35.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Gibson Desert North · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Gibson Desert North
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more homes here lack a car than in most similar areas, with 35.3% of households in Gibson Desert North having no motor vehicle. This is a sparsely populated region where transport options are extremely limited. Most people rely on walking or private cars to get around, as there is no public transport available.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 35.3% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is far above the state figure of 5.0% and the national figure of 7.4%. For those who do have a car, the most common setup is a single vehicle, used by 43.1% of households.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Gibson Desert North, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 47%, followed by No vehicle (38%) and 3 vehicles (9%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking is the most common way to get to work at 38.6%, while 50% of workers use a car. No one in the area works from home or uses public transport, which is far below the national figure of 21.0% for working from home.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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.
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 weekly departures per 1,000 people are 0.0, which is far below the Western Australian figure of 1,623.0.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Gibson Desert North [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50540/gibson-desert-north/topic/transport