4.4% ▲ +121.7%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 4.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Pickering Brook · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Pickering Brook
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car ownership remains the dominant way to get around Pickering Brook, where most households own multiple vehicles. While working from home is more common here than in the rest of Western Australia, the area lacks any local public transport options.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here are well-equipped for travel, with 77.8% of households owning two or more cars. Only 4.4% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is about the same as the Western Australian figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Pickering Brook splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (31%) and 3 vehicles (28%), with 4 or more at 22%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 54.1% of residents. About 17.7% work from home, a figure far above the Western Australian average, while only 2% use public transport.
17.7% ▲ +34.0%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.2%
- 2016: 16.2%
- 2021: 17.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.0% ▲ +106.1%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.0%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 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.
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, leaving residents with far fewer options than the state average. Consequently, no one can reach other people via transit within 45 minutes.
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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
The drive time to the city is 31 minutes, which is lower than in most similar areas.
31
Lower than 73% 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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- 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 Pickering Brook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51237/pickering-brook/topic/transport