5.2% ▼ -37.1%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 5.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lathlain · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Lathlain
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Well above the national figure, 9.2% of workers in Lathlain use public transport to get to work. This high rate of transit use is supported by a short 3-minute walk to the nearest stop and a quick 8-minute drive to the city.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have one or two cars, though 5.2% of households have no motor vehicle. This is much higher than most similar areas, though it is about the same as the Western Australian average.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Lathlain splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
While 57.8% of workers drive to work, 9.2% use public transport, which is well above the figures for Western Australia and Australia. Meanwhile, only 8.4% of people work from home, a figure far below the national average.
8.4% ▲ +118.7%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 8.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
9.2% ▼ -24.2%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 9.2%
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.
Lathlain is very well connected, with five public transport routes and 15 stops. This means 151,671 people can be reached within 45 minutes by transit, a figure larger than about 88% of similar areas.
15
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.06
Higher than 74% 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).
1,964.9
Higher than 91% 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).
5
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
43,958
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
151,671
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
36
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport + walking time, in minutes, from the area to its capital city centre on a weekday morning (R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network). Blank where no scheduled service connects the area to the city.
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting around is efficient, with a very short 3-minute walk to the nearest stop. Residents also enjoy a drive time to the city of just 8 minutes, which is among the lowest for areas of this type.
3
Lower than 79% 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.
8
Lower than 97% 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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- 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 Lathlain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50835/lathlain/topic/transport