0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Moresby · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Moresby
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero homes without a car make Moresby a place where owning a vehicle is essential for daily life. The area is almost entirely dependent on private transport, as there are no public transport options available for residents.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Moresby has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the state and national figures for carless households. Most families have multiple cars, with 37.3% owning two and 18.3% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Moresby, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 3 vehicles (26%) and 4 or more (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Cars are the only practical way to get to work, with 73.7% of people driving. Very few people work from home at 3.5%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
3.5% ▼ -8.2%
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 3.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 1.8%
- 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, stops, or departures in Moresby. This leaves the area far below the Western Australian average for transit access.
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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Walking to the nearest transport stop would take a typical resident 53 minutes, a time that is much higher than most similar areas.
53
Higher than 81% 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.
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)).
- 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 Moresby [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50996/moresby/topic/transport