3.8% ▲ +26.5%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Hopetoun · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Hopetoun
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
High rates of public transport use for work set Hopetoun apart from most similar areas. While the typical home has one or two cars, 13.1% of workers use public transit, which is well above the national and state figures.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 36.5% owning two. Only 3.8% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well below the national average.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Hopetoun, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 45%, followed by 2 vehicles (37%) and 3 vehicles (8%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Over half of workers drive themselves to work, but a striking 13.1% use public transport, which is well above the state figure of 4.7%. Meanwhile, working from home is rare here, with only 5.2% doing so, which is far below the Australian average.
5.2% ▼ -56.7%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 5.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
13.1% ▲ +17.6%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 13.1%
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.
The area relies entirely on a single bus route. While this provides more stops and routes than many similar small areas, the 1.8 weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state average.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.90
Higher than 61% 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).
1.8
Higher than 57% 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).
1
Higher than 71% 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 Hopetoun [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50654/hopetoun/topic/transport