0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Merkanooka · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Merkanooka
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Working from home has become a major part of life in Merkanooka, where 40.5% of people now do their jobs from residence. This is far above the national figure of 21%. The area relies heavily on private cars, with every single household owning at least two vehicles.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every home in Merkanooka has a motor vehicle, which is well below the 7.4% of Australian households that have none. Most families have several cars, with 54.5% of homes owning three or more vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Merkanooka splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 3 vehicles (37%), with 4 or more at 26%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Almost 41% of people work from home, a figure far above the 7.5% seen across Western Australia. No one uses public transport to get to work, while 35.1% drive and 18.9% walk.
40.5% —
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.7%
- 2021: 40.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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.
There are no public transport routes or stops in the area. This means the number of weekly departures and stops per 1,000 people is far below the Western Australian average.
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).
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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Merkanooka [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50937/merkanooka/topic/transport