Green Head · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Green Head

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

Very few people in Green Head used public transport for work in 2021, with 0% of workers commuting by bus or train. The area relies heavily on cars, though 13.9% of the workforce now works from home. This is well above the Western Australian figure of 7.5%.

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📍 Green Head, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have one or two cars, though 3.5% of households have no motor vehicle. This is higher than most similar areas, but well below the national figure of 7.4%.

3.5% ▲ +4.2%

Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.3%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 3.5%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Green Head splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 18%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work, with 46.5% of people as the driver and 7.9% as passengers. No one uses public transport to commute, which is well below both the state and national figures.

13.9% ▲ +46.5%

Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 9.5%
  • 2016: 4.2%
  • 2021: 13.9%

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 Green Head, Car (driver) is the majority at 64%; Worked at home is next at 19%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is very limited, with only one bus route and one stop serving the area. While this is more than some similar areas, the 13.7 weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state average.

3.41

Higher than 71% 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).

13.7

Higher than 59% 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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Green Head [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50579/green-head/topic/transport