North Walpole · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in North Walpole

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

Half of the people who work in North Walpole drive themselves to their jobs. This is a place where every single home has at least one motor vehicle, making it far more car-dependent than the typical Western Australian or Australian household.

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📍 North Walpole, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have two vehicles, and no households are without a car. This lack of car-less homes is well below the figures for both the state and the nation.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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 North Walpole, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 48%, followed by 1 vehicle (23%) and 3 vehicles (16%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common here at 20.0%, which is far above the Western Australian figure. Interestingly, 6.0% of workers use public transport, which is a little above the national and state averages.

20.0%

Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 27.0%
  • 2021: 20.0%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

6.0%

Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 6.0%

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 North Walpole, Car (driver) is the majority at 53%; Worked at home is next at 21%.

Public transport access

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

Despite how some people get to work, there are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This is far below the state average for service access.

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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).

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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 North Walpole [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51152/north-walpole/topic/transport