Paradise · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Paradise

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

Private cars are essential in Paradise, where not a single home is without a motor vehicle. This total reliance on driving is reflected in the way people get to work and the complete absence of local public transport options.

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📍 Paradise, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have multiple cars, with 63% of households owning three or more vehicles. This is reflected in the fact that 0.0% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.4%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Paradise splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (34%) and 3 vehicles (33%), with 4 or more at 23%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common here, with 21.9% of people doing so, which is far above the Western Australian figure of 7.5%. For those who do travel, the vast majority drive, as 0.0% of the workforce uses public transport.

21.9% ▲ +27.3%

Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 17.2%
  • 2016: 27.9%
  • 2021: 21.9%

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: 1.7%
  • 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 Paradise, Car (driver) is the majority at 70%; Worked at home is next at 25%.

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. Consequently, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is 0.0, which is far below the Western Australian figure of 1,623.

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting into the city takes a significant amount of time, with a typical drive time of 101 minutes.

101

Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.

Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.

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)).
  • Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Paradise [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51202/paradise/topic/transport