Napier · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Napier

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

Forty-one per cent of homes in Napier have two motor vehicles, making cars the primary way people get around. This is a place where almost every household owns a car and the vast majority of residents rely on them for travel.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Not a single home in Napier is without a motor vehicle. This is well below the Western Australian figure of 5% and the national figure of 7.4%.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.3%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Napier, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 3 vehicles (27%) and 4 or more (18%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common here, with 20.8% of the workforce doing so, which is far above the state figure. This helps explain why no one uses public transport to get to work.

20.8% ▼ -29.2%

Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 29.4%
  • 2016: 18.6%
  • 2021: 20.8%

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: 2.2%
  • 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 Napier, Car (driver) is the majority at 67%; Worked at home is next at 26%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent in the area, with no stops or routes available. This is far below the Western Australian average for stops and departures per 1,000 people.

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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 Napier [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51086/napier/topic/transport