Metricup · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Metricup

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

Almost every single home in Metricup relies on a car to get around. With no public transport available, the area is heavily dependent on private vehicles, though about 21% of workers avoid the road entirely by working from home.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households have multiple cars, with 85.9% owning two or more vehicles. Only 3.8% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

3.8%

Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 3.8%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Metricup, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 35%, followed by 3 vehicles (28%) and 4 or more (21%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 49.4% of residents, while 11% walk. About 20.8% of people work from home, a figure far above the Western Australian average of 7.5%.

20.8%

Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 22.3%
  • 2021: 20.8%

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.

How people get to work

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In Metricup, Car (driver) is the majority at 59%; Worked at home is next at 25%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means 0% of people use public transport to commute, which is well below both the state and national figures.

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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Metricup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50941/metricup/topic/transport