0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lake King · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Lake King
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over a third of workers in Lake King work from home, a figure far above the national average. This sparsely populated area relies heavily on private transport, with every single home owning at least one motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 36% of homes owning four or more vehicles. No homes in Lake King are without a motor vehicle, which is well below the rates seen across Western Australia and the rest of the country.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Lake King splits fairly evenly between 4 or more (39%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 1 vehicle at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common at 34.5%, far above the national figure of 21%. While 38.2% of people drive to work and 20% walk, no one uses public transport to commute.
34.5% ▲ +2.7%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.6%
- 2016: 20.3%
- 2021: 34.5%
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: 1.4%
- 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.
The area has 11.9 public transport stops per 1,000 people, far above the state average. However, with only one stop and two bus routes, weekly departures are far below the Western Australian figure.
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.
11.90
Higher than 88% 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).
119.0
Higher than 71% 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).
2
Higher than 75% 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 Lake King [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50822/lake-king/topic/transport