2.3% ▲ +5.6%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 2.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
McKail · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in McKail
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car ownership has remained dominant in McKail, where very few households get by without a vehicle. The area is heavily reliant on private transport, with a tiny fraction of the workforce using public transit or working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have multiple cars, with 48.1% owning two and 15.7% owning three. Only 2.3% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In McKail, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 48%, followed by 1 vehicle (26%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, as 74.7% of workers drive themselves. Very few people work from home at 2.8%, which is far below the Australian average of 21.0%.
2.8% ▲ +4.9%
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 2.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.9% ▲ +15.0%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 0.9%
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.
While McKail has four public transport stops—more than about 76% of similar areas—service levels are low. The 55.4 weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Western Australian figure of 1,623.
4
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.01
Higher than 61% 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).
55.4
Higher than 63% 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.
Residents typically face a 20-minute walk to reach the nearest public transport stop, a figure that is around the middle for its level.
20
Higher than 59% 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 McKail [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50920/mckail/topic/transport