1.4% ▼ -40.2%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 1.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Ocean Beach · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Ocean Beach
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero public transport stops serve Ocean Beach, making it an area where almost everyone relies on their own car. Very few people here go without a vehicle, and the vast majority of workers commute by car or work from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are essential here, with 44.5% of homes owning two vehicles and 21.4% owning three. Only 1.4% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Ocean Beach, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (27%) and 3 vehicles (21%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, though 11.7% work from home, a figure well above the Western Australian average. Only 0.6% use public transport to get to work, which is well below the state figure.
11.7% ▲ +23.8%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.5%
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 11.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -3.2%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 0.6%
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.
Public transport is non-existent in the area, with no routes or stops available. This means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure far below the Western Australian average.
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).
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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Ocean Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51175/ocean-beach/topic/transport