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.
Hester · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Hester
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 39% of households in Hester have three motor vehicles, making car ownership a central part of local life. This is a place where every single home owns at least one vehicle, which is well below the rates for Western Australia and the rest of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
No homes in the area are without a motor vehicle, a figure well below the 5% seen across Western Australia. Most residents rely heavily on cars, with 30.6% of homes owning two vehicles and 8.3% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Hester, the largest group is 3 vehicles at 44%, followed by 2 vehicles (34%) and 1 vehicle (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 52.3% of people commuting as a driver. Very few people work from home at 6.8%, which is far below the national figure of 21%, and no one uses public transport to commute.
6.8% —
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 6.8%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is non-existent in Hester, with zero stops and zero routes serving the area. This means there are no weekly departures, leaving the area far below the Western Australian 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).
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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Hester [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50630/hester/topic/transport