0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Irishtown · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Irishtown
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly every household in Irishtown owns a car, reflecting a deep reliance on private vehicles for daily travel. While the area has seen some growth in remote work, it remains a place where almost no one uses public transport to get to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 40% of homes owning four or more vehicles. Not a single home in the area is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the state and national figures.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Irishtown splits fairly evenly between 4 or more (41%) and 2 vehicles (38%), with 1 vehicle at 10%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common for 22.6% of residents, which is far above the Western Australian average. In contrast, no one uses public transport to get to work, far below the figures for the state and nation.
22.6% ▲ +33.9%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.9%
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 22.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 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 the area, with zero routes, stops, and weekly departures. This lack of service is far below the state average of 5.48 stops per 1,000 people.
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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
It takes 71 minutes to drive to the city from here. Because there are no local services, the walk to the nearest stop is among the longest in the region at 80 minutes.
80
Higher than 97% 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.
71
Higher than 51% 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)).
- 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 Irishtown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50672/irishtown/topic/transport