3.4% ▼ -37.3%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 3.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Melville · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Melville
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A far lower share of people work from home in Melville compared to the national figure, where the gap is 11 percentage points. While most residents rely on cars, the area has an exceptionally high number of public transport departures and stops relative to its population.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few households get by without a car, with only 3.4% of Melville homes having no motor vehicle. This is well below the Australian figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Melville, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 63.2% of residents. Only 9.6% work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
9.6% ▲ +153.1%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 9.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.9% ▼ -32.9%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.8%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 3.9%
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.
The area is well-served by 26 stops across six routes, all of which are buses. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are 2,290.8, which is well above the Western Australian figure.
26
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.19
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).
2,290.8
Higher than 93% 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).
6
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
37,677
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).
78,722
Higher than 74% 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).
58
Higher than 51% 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 into the city is quick, with a drive time of just 15 minutes, which is much lower than most areas. A walk to the nearest transport stop typically takes 6 minutes.
6
Lower than 64% 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.
15
Lower than 88% 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 Melville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50932/melville/topic/transport