24.0% ▲ +56.0%
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.4%
- 2016: 21.2%
- 2021: 24.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Ord River · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Ord River
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly one quarter of households in Ord River have no motor vehicle, which is far above the national figure of 7.4%. This lack of cars is unusual for the region, yet the area also has no public transport options. Residents mostly rely on walking or working from home to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 24% of homes have no motor vehicle, a rate far above the 5% seen across Western Australia. For those who do own cars, 48% of homes have one vehicle and 40% have two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Ord River, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 43%, followed by 2 vehicles (36%) and No vehicle (21%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking is the most common way to get to work for 40% of people, while 12.3% work from home, which is well above the state figure. No one uses public transport to commute, a result well below the national average.
12.3% ▲ +155.7%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 21.7%
- 2021: 12.3%
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: 11.8%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
There are no public transport routes or stops in the area. This means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the Western Australian figure.
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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Ord River [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51188/ord-river/topic/transport