0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lower Chittering · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Lower Chittering
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car reliance has remained absolute in Lower Chittering, where not a single home is without a motor vehicle. This makes the area stand out compared to the rest of the state, with the vast majority of residents relying on their own cars for every trip.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every home has multiple cars, with 89.7% owning two or more vehicles. No homes in the area are without a motor vehicle, which is well below the 5.0% rate seen across Western Australia.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Lower Chittering, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 37%, followed by 3 vehicles (28%) and 4 or more (25%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, and only 9.1% work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%. Just 1.2% of the workforce uses public transport, a figure that is a little below the Australian average.
9.1% ▲ +58.4%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 9.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.2% ▲ +14.6%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.0%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 1.2%
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.
Public transport is non-existent here, with zero routes, stops, or departures. This puts the area far below the Western Australian 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.
The typical drive time to the city is 47 minutes, which is lower than most similar areas.
47
Lower than 63% 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).
More for Lower Chittering
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Lower Chittering [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50863/lower-chittering/topic/transport