1.5% ▼ -1.5%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 1.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lower King · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Lower King
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 73% of workers in Lower King drive themselves to work, reflecting a strong reliance on cars. Very few homes lack a vehicle, and the typical household owns two or more. This makes the area much more car-dependent than the national average.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 1.5% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the figures for Western Australia and the rest of the country. Most households are well-equipped, with 41.3% owning two vehicles and 34.5% owning three or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Lower King, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (24%) and 3 vehicles (22%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is rare here, at just 3.9%, which is far below the national figure. While 0.7% of people use public transport to get to work—higher than in most similar areas—this is still well below the state average.
3.9% ▲ +35.4%
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 3.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▼ -11.0%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 0.7%
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.
Lower King has 14 public transport stops, providing more stops per person than most similar areas. However, the number of weekly departures is far below the state average, with the bus being the only available mode.
14
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
7.41
Higher than 86% 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).
148.1
Higher than 72% 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).
1
Higher than 71% 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.
Walking to the nearest transport stop takes about 34 minutes on average, which is higher than in most other similar areas.
34
Higher than 70% 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.
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).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Lower King [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50865/lower-king/topic/transport