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.
Grass Patch · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Grass Patch
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people work from home in Grass Patch than in most similar areas, with 34.7% of the workforce doing so. This remote lifestyle is supported by high vehicle ownership, as every single household in the area has at least one motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every home here owns a car, which is well below the 5% of Western Australian households that have none. Most residents have multiple vehicles, with 64.6% of homes owning three or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Grass Patch, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 3 vehicles (21%) and 4 or more (21%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far more common here than the national figure of 21%. No one uses public transport to get to work, and 41.7% of the workforce drive themselves.
34.7% ▲ +5.9%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.8%
- 2016: 38.2%
- 2021: 34.7%
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: 2.1%
- 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.
While there are 17.7 public transport stops per 1,000 people—far above the state figure—service is very limited. Weekly departures are far below the Western Australian average, with only one bus route serving the area.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
17.70
Higher than 91% 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).
61.9
Higher than 64% 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).
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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Grass Patch [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50577/grass-patch/topic/transport