Goode Beach · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Goode Beach

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

Zero public transport stops separate Goode Beach from the rest of the region, making it a place almost entirely dependent on cars. While most homes have one or two vehicles, there is no available public transport within the area to support other ways of getting around.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Motor vehicles are common here, with 41.4% of homes having one car and 37.9% having two. Only 3.4% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

3.4% ▲ —

Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 3.4%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Goode Beach splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (43%) and 2 vehicles (39%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Almost everyone who works travels by car, as 0.0% of the workforce uses public transport. This is well below both the state and national figures, though 14.2% of people work from home, which is well above the Western Australian average.

14.2% ▲ +107.5%

Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 6.8%
  • 2016: 6.3%
  • 2021: 14.2%

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: 4.2%
  • 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 Goode Beach, Car (driver) is the majority at 74%; Worked at home is next at 18%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport is nonexistent in Goode Beach, with zero stops and zero routes. This puts the area far below the Western Australian average of 5.48 stops per 1,000 people.

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting to the nearest transport stop is a challenge, with a typical walk taking 83 minutes. This is among the highest times recorded for areas at this level.

83

Higher than 98% 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 Goode Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50567/goode-beach/topic/transport