2.9% ▼ -47.4%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.5%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 2.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Goomalling · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Goomalling
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A 92-minute drive to the city means most people in Goomalling rely heavily on their own cars for daily life. While car ownership is high, this is a place where almost no one uses public transport to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have at least one car, with 34.6% owning two and 13.5% owning three. Only 2.9% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Goomalling, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 42%, followed by 2 vehicles (35%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 62.9% of people as the driver. This explains why 0.0% of the workforce uses public transport, a figure well below both the state and national averages.
9.1% ▲ +3.6%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 9.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 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, consisting of a single bus route with one stop. This results in only 7.9 weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the Western Australian average.
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.
1.97
Higher than 65% 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).
7.9
Higher than 58% 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.
Reaching the nearest public transport stop takes about 19 minutes on foot, which is around the middle for similar areas.
19
Higher than 58% 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.
92
Higher than 64% 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 Goomalling [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50569/goomalling/topic/transport