65.0% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
Mills Lake · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Mills Lake
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A huge 65% of people in Mills Lake work from home, which is far above the national figure. This makes the area very different from most of Australia, where few people avoid a daily commute. With almost no one using public transport, the local workforce relies almost entirely on home-based work or private cars.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
The most common motor vehicles per home is 2 vehicles at 75%, ahead of 4 or more (38%).
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Mills Lake, 2 vehicles is the majority at 67%; 4 or more is next at 33%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is the primary way people earn a living here, at 65%, while only 15% drive a car to work. Public transport use is non-existent at 0%, which is well below the Western Australian figure.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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 stops or routes in the area. This means the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is 0, falling 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Mills Lake [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50954/mills-lake/topic/transport