Manjimup · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Manjimup

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

Far fewer people work from home in Manjimup than in the rest of the country, with only 2.8% doing so. This reliance on physical workplaces is reflected in how people get around, as the vast majority of the community depends on private cars for their daily travel.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

About 7.1% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas and a little above the Western Australian figure. Most households own either one or two vehicles, with 37.4% having one and 35.5% having two.

7.1% ▼ -17.6%

Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 8.7%
  • 2016: 7.4%
  • 2021: 7.1%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Manjimup splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 72.1% of people driving themselves. Very few people use public transport for their commute, at just 0.8%, and the 2.8% who work from home is far below the national figure.

2.8% ▲ +19.7%

Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.3%
  • 2016: 2.6%
  • 2021: 2.8%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.8% ▼ -6.5%

Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.9%
  • 2016: 1.0%
  • 2021: 0.8%

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 Manjimup, Car (driver) is the majority at 83%; Car (passenger) is next at 8%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport consists entirely of bus services, with three routes and one stop. While the number of routes is larger than in about 82% of similar areas, weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the state average.

0.23

Higher than 58% 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).

5.6

Higher than 58% 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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The typical walk to the nearest public transport stop takes 13 minutes, which is around the middle for areas of this level.

13

Higher than 50% 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 Manjimup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50891/manjimup/topic/transport