2.3% ▼ -36.7%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 2.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Hyden · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Hyden
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every household in Hyden relies on a private car to get around. With only 2.3% of homes lacking a motor vehicle, car ownership is much higher here than the national figure. This heavy reliance on private transport is mirrored in the way people travel for work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have multiple cars, with 36.7% owning two vehicles and 16.4% having four or more. This means far fewer households are without a car compared to the typical Australian home.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Hyden splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (35%) and 1 vehicle (31%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the state and national figures. Instead, 53.7% of workers drive themselves, while 15.8% work from home.
15.8% ▲ +11.0%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.2%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 15.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.0%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 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 very limited with only one route and one stop serving the area. This results in a very low number of weekly departures per person compared to the Western Australian 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.
2.60
Higher than 68% 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).
5.2
Higher than 58% 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Hyden [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50662/hyden/topic/transport