4.8% ▼ -41.6%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mount Hawthorn · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Mount Hawthorn
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Better public transport access than most similar areas defines Mount Hawthorn, where 8.6% of workers commute by transit. This is well above the national figure of 3.1% and reflects a highly connected neighborhood. Most residents rely on cars, but the area's strong transit links make it an outlier for the state.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Nearly half of all homes have two vehicles, though 4.8% of households have no motor vehicle. This is a little below the Australian figure of 7.4% and about the same as the Western Australian average.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Mount Hawthorn, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 1 vehicle (34%) and 3 vehicles (11%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
More people here use public transport to get to work than in most similar areas. While 54.9% of workers drive, 10.7% work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
10.7% ▲ +166.8%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
8.6% ▼ -16.0%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 9.0%
- 2021: 8.6%
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.
The area is very well served with 45 public transport stops and 8 routes, all of which are bus services. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are far above the state figure, and the 34-minute transit time to the city is much lower than in most similar areas.
45
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.50
Higher than 79% 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).
2,784.7
Higher than 96% 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).
8
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
21,579
Higher than 75% 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).
188,728
Higher than 87% 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).
34
Lower than 89% 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.
Mount Hawthorn is exceptionally convenient for travel, with a drive time to the city of just 7 minutes. It also ranks among the lowest for walking distance to the nearest stop, which is listed as 0 minutes.
0
Lower than 99% 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.
7
Lower than 99% 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 Mount Hawthorn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51015/mount-hawthorn/topic/transport