Kalgan · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Kalgan

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

About 40% of homes in Kalgan have two motor vehicles, making private cars the dominant way to get around. This is a place where almost everyone relies on their own transport, as public options are entirely absent.

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📍 Kalgan, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Very few households get by without a car, with only 1.4% having no motor vehicle. This is well below the figures for both Western Australia and the rest of the country.

1.4% ▼ -0.1%

Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 1.4%
  • 2016: 1.3%
  • 2021: 1.4%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Kalgan, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 3 vehicles (24%) and 1 vehicle (22%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most people drive themselves to work, and 13.1% work from home, which is well above the Western Australian figure. No one in the area uses public transport to commute.

13.1% ▼ -4.2%

Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 13.7%
  • 2016: 10.2%
  • 2021: 13.1%

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: 0.9%
  • 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 Kalgan, Car (driver) is the majority at 77%; Worked at home is next at 16%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in Kalgan. This puts the area far below the state average for transit access.

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 Kalgan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50711/kalgan/topic/transport