7.7% ▼ -11.2%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 7.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mirrabooka · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Mirrabooka
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Strong public transport infrastructure makes Mirrabooka a well-connected hub, though most residents still rely on cars. While it has a high number of transit stops, the typical commute to the city takes 67 minutes.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 7.7% of homes here have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas and a little above the Western Australian figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Mirrabooka splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (33%) and 2 vehicles (33%), with 3 vehicles at 17%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Cars are the main way to get to work, with 70.4% of people driving. Very few people work from home at 3.3%, a figure far below the national average.
3.3% ▲ +74.9%
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 3.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.0% ▼ -47.4%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 3.0%
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.
Mirrabooka is well-served by 20 bus routes and 63 stops. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are among the highest at this level and far above the state figure.
63
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
7.88
Higher than 86% 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).
3,645.0
Higher 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).
20
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
0
Lower than 99% 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).
40,875
Higher than 61% 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).
67
Higher than 69% 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.
A 14-minute drive to the city is much lower than most other areas, while the 10-minute walk to the nearest stop is around the middle for its level.
10
Lower than 54% 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.
14
Lower than 90% 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 Mirrabooka [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50970/mirrabooka/topic/transport