North West Cape · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in North West Cape

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

Not a single home in North West Cape is without a motor vehicle. This total reliance on cars is a standout feature for the area, where the typical household owns multiple vehicles to get around.

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📍 North West Cape, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have at least one car, with 39.1% owning one and 15.6% owning four or more. This means far fewer homes are without a vehicle compared to both Western Australia and the national figure.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 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 West Cape, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 43%, followed by 2 vehicles (26%) and 4 or more (17%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Walking is a common choice here, with 21.4% of workers on foot. While 15.5% work from home—well above the state figure—about 41.7% drive themselves to work.

15.5% ▲ +35.8%

Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 11.4%
  • 2016: 19.2%
  • 2021: 15.5%

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

4.8% ▲ —

Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 4.8%

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 West Cape, the largest group is Car (driver) at 48%, followed by Walked (25%) and Worked at home (18%).

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This puts North West Cape far below the Western Australian average for transit 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 West Cape [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51153/north-west-cape/topic/transport