Grass Valley · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Grass Valley

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

Zero households without a car highlights the total reliance on private vehicles in Grass Valley. This gap is stark compared to the 7.4% of Australian homes that have no motor vehicle. Most residents here depend on their own cars for every trip, as there are no public transport options available.

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📍 Grass Valley, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Cars are essential here, with no homes lacking a motor vehicle. This is well below the 5% of Western Australian households without one, and nearly half of all homes have three or more vehicles.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.9%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Grass Valley splits fairly evenly between 3 vehicles (30%) and 1 vehicle (29%), with 2 vehicles at 27%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 75.4% of people using a car. Very few people work from home at 4.1%, a figure far below the national rate of 21%.

4.1% ▼ -29.5%

Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 5.8%
  • 2016: 10.0%
  • 2021: 4.1%

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.

How people get to work

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In Grass Valley, Car (driver) is the majority at 70%; Car (passenger) is next at 17%.

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 puts Grass Valley far below the Western Australian average of 5.48 stops per 1,000 people.

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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.

It takes typically 76 minutes to drive from the area to the city, which is around the middle for similar places.

76

Higher than 54% 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 Grass Valley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50578/grass-valley/topic/transport