Karlgarin · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Karlgarin

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

Far fewer people go without a car in Karlgarin than in the rest of the country, with 0% of homes lacking a vehicle. This reflects a small, rural community where private transport is essential for daily life and work.

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📍 Karlgarin, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes here are well-equipped for travel, as 39.4% have four or more vehicles and 0% of households are without a motor vehicle.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 4.7%
  • 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 Karlgarin, the largest group is 4 or more at 36%, followed by 1 vehicle (25%) and 3 vehicles (22%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common here, with 25% of people doing so, which is far above the Western Australian figure of 7.5%. No one uses public transport to get to work.

25.0% ▼ -26.0%

Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 33.8%
  • 2016: 33.9%
  • 2021: 25.0%

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.

How people get to work

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In Karlgarin, the largest group is Car (driver) at 50%, followed by Worked at home (33%) and Walked (17%).

Public transport access

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

While Karlgarin has 19.05 stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the state average, the 19.0 weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Western Australian figure.

19.05

Higher than 92% 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).

19.0

Higher than 59% 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 Karlgarin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50727/karlgarin/topic/transport