4.6% ▲ +19.3%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Pegs Creek · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Pegs Creek
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people rely on public transport to get to work in Pegs Creek than in most similar areas, despite a total lack of local services. While a few residents use these options, the vast majority of the community depends on private cars to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have one or two cars, with 39% having just one and 37.2% having two. About 4.6% of households have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Pegs Creek splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Nearly 70% of workers drive themselves to work, and very few work from home at 2.1%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%. Only 1.2% of people commute by public transport, a rate well below the state average.
2.1% ▲ +50.9%
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 2.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.2% ▼ -72.7%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 1.2%
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 stops or routes in the area. This means weekly departures and stops per person are far below the Western Australian figures.
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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to a transit point is difficult here, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 64 minutes, which is much higher than most similar areas.
64
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
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).
More for Pegs Creek
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Pegs Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51222/pegs-creek/topic/transport