0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Hamel · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Hamel
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every home in Hamel relies on a car to get around. While most residents have multiple vehicles, the area has very little local public transport, making it a place where driving is the primary way to access work and services.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Not a single home in Hamel lacks a motor vehicle, which is well below the figures for both Western Australia and Australia. Most households are well-equipped, with 74.9% owning three or more vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Hamel splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (27%) and 2 vehicles (25%), with 3 vehicles at 25%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
A car is the main way to get to work for 56.6% of residents. Only 7.2% work from home, a figure that is far below the national average.
7.2% ▲ +23.0%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 10.4%
- 2021: 7.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
4.6% ▲ +56.6%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 4.6%
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.
Public transport is virtually non-existent here, with no routes or stops serving the area. This means access to services is far below the state average.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
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).
0
Lower than 99% 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.
Daily travel involves significant distances, with a 78-minute drive to the city. The walk to the nearest stop is 82 minutes, which is among the longest for similar areas.
82
Higher than 98% 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.
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 Hamel [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50604/hamel/topic/transport