Hester Brook · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Hester Brook

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

Every single home in Hester Brook has at least one motor vehicle, making private cars essential for daily life. This reliance on cars is mirrored in the workforce, where over half of the residents drive to work and no one uses public transport.

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📍 Hester Brook, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households are well-equipped for travel, with 86% of homes owning two or more vehicles. This is reflected in the fact that 0% of homes lack a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

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 Hester Brook, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 3 vehicles (33%) and 4 or more (18%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common here, with 21.8% of residents doing so, a figure far above the Western Australian average. The remaining workforce relies almost entirely on driving, as 0% of people use public transport to get to work.

21.8% —

Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 27.5%
  • 2021: 21.8%

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

0.0% —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 7.8%
  • 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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In Hester Brook, Car (driver) is the majority at 72%; Worked at home is next at 28%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area, leaving residents far below the state average for transit access. With zero weekly departures, there is no available public transport service for the population.

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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Hester Brook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50631/hester-brook/topic/transport