Gwambygine · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Gwambygine

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

Zero homes are without a car in Gwambygine, making private vehicles essential for daily life. This is a place where almost everyone relies on their own transport, and a large proportion of the workforce avoids a commute entirely by working from home.

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📍 Gwambygine, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every household owns at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure where 7.4% of homes have none. Most homes have two cars, while about 15% have four or more.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Gwambygine, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 1 vehicle (24%) and 3 vehicles (18%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is very common here, with 37.1% of people doing so, a figure far above the national average of 21%. No one uses public transport to get to work.

37.1%

Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 9.7%
  • 2021: 37.1%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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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Gwambygine splits fairly evenly between Car (driver) (50%) and Worked at home (50%).

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent in the area, with zero stops and routes. This lack of access is far below the Western Australian average.

0.00

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.

The drive time to the city is 78 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.

78

Higher than 55% 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 Gwambygine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50598/gwambygine/topic/transport