Piccadilly · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Piccadilly

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

Just 1.4% of workers in Piccadilly work from home, a figure far below the national level. This small community relies heavily on cars, though it has more public transport stops and routes than most similar areas.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have one or two cars, but 5.3% of households have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than in most similar areas.

5.3% ▼ -14.1%

Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 6.1%
  • 2016: 6.1%
  • 2021: 5.3%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Piccadilly splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

The vast majority of people drive to work, with 71.8% as the driver. Very few people use public transport (2.0%) or work from home, which is well below the state figure.

1.4% ▼ -32.3%

Lower than 97% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.1%
  • 2016: 1.0%
  • 2021: 1.4%

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

2.0% ▼ -22.3%

Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.6%
  • 2016: 2.7%
  • 2021: 2.0%

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 Piccadilly, Car (driver) is the majority at 81%; Car (passenger) is next at 9%.

Public transport access

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

Piccadilly has 10 public transport stops and 4 routes, making it larger than about 85% of similar areas. Despite this, weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the state average.

4.34

Higher than 75% 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).

251.6

Higher than 74% 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 to the nearest stop is quick, with a typical walk of only 3 minutes, which is much lower than in most areas.

3

Lower than 79% 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).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Piccadilly [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51236/piccadilly/topic/transport