Peak Hill · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Peak Hill

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

Far more people use public transport to get to work in Peak Hill than the state or national average. While 15.4% of workers use these services, the area actually has no public transport stops or routes available.

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📍 Peak Hill, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

The most common motor vehicles per home is 1 vehicle at 80%, ahead of 3 vehicles (27%).

Motor vehicles per home

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In Peak Hill, 1 vehicle is the majority at 52%; 3 vehicles is next at 17%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

The 15.4% of people using public transport to commute is far above the Western Australian figure of 4.7%. Working from home is also common at 15.4%, which is well above the state average, though well below the national figure.

15.4% ▲ +89.7%

Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 8.1%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 15.4%

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

15.4% ▼ -33.8%

Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 23.2%
  • 2016: 11.0%
  • 2021: 15.4%

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 Peak Hill, the largest group is Car (driver) at 29%, followed by Bus (24%) and Worked at home (24%).

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops, routes, or weekly departures in Peak Hill. This leaves the area 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 Peak Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51218/peak-hill/topic/transport