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.
Gilgering · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Gilgering
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Every single home in Gilgering has at least one motor vehicle, making cars essential for daily life here. This reliance on driving is reflected in the commute, where 60.5% of workers drive themselves to work and almost none use public transport.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households keep several cars, with 62.1% of homes owning three or more vehicles. This is far above the national figure, as no home in the area is without a motor vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Gilgering splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (31%) and 3 vehicles (31%), with 4 or more at 25%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here at 26.3%, which is far above the Western Australian average of 7.5%. Those who do travel for work rely almost entirely on cars, with 10.5% walking and nobody using public transport.
26.3% ▼ -12.9%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.2%
- 2016: 54.3%
- 2021: 26.3%
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 nonexistent in Gilgering, with no routes or stops serving the area. This is far below the Western Australian average for transport access.
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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
It takes about 79 minutes to drive from here to the city, a travel time that is around the middle for similar areas.
79
Higher than 56% 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 Gilgering [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50543/gilgering/topic/transport