0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Greenough · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Greenough
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Reliant on private cars, Greenough has seen its travel patterns shift as more people work from home. Every single household in the area now owns at least one motor vehicle, making it far more car-dependent than the national average.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Private transport is essential here, as 0.0% of homes lack a motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure of 7.4%, with 23% of households owning four or more cars.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Greenough, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 4 or more (23%) and 1 vehicle (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most of the workforce relies on cars, though 11% of people work from home. This is well above the Western Australian figure of 7.5%, but far below the 21% seen across Australia.
11.0% ▼ -4.4%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.5%
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 11.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.8% ▲ +11.6%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 1.8%
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 the area has 3 bus routes and more stops per person than most similar places, the service is infrequent. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the state figure.
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.
5.81
Higher than 81% 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).
69.8
Higher than 65% 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).
3
Higher than 79% 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.
Getting to public transport is a challenge in Greenough, where it takes a typical resident 40 minutes to walk to the nearest stop.
40
Higher than 74% 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).
More for Greenough
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Greenough [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50586/greenough/topic/transport