3.0% ▼ -15.1%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 3.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Heathridge · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Heathridge
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Heathridge compared to the rest of the country, where the national figure is 21%. This suburb is heavily reliant on cars for travel, although it has a high number of public transport stops and routes relative to similar areas.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few homes here go without a car, with only 3% having no motor vehicle. This is well below the Australian figure of 7.4%, and most households own two or more vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Heathridge, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most of the workforce drives, with 64% of people commuting by car. Public transport use for work is 4.8%, which is among the highest for similar areas and slightly above the national figure of 3.1%.
6.6% ▲ +150.0%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
4.8% ▼ -6.7%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 4.8%
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.
Heathridge is well served by 42 public transport stops and 5 routes, which is more than about 88% of similar areas. While there are many stops, the travel time to the city by transit is 69 minutes, which is higher than most areas.
42
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
6.09
Higher than 82% 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).
1,460.1
Higher than 89% 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).
5
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
10,572
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
54,591
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
69
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport + walking time, in minutes, from the area to its capital city centre on a weekday morning (R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network). Blank where no scheduled service connects the area to the city.
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to the city by car is much faster than in most areas, taking typically 20 minutes. Residents also have easy access to transit, with a typical 4-minute walk to the nearest stop.
4
Lower than 71% 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.
20
Lower than 83% 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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- 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 Heathridge [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50622/heathridge/topic/transport