Pinjar · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Pinjar

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

Almost every household in Pinjar owns a car, making it more car-reliant than most similar areas. The area is entirely dependent on private vehicles for travel, as there are no public transport stops or routes serving the community.

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📍 Pinjar, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home here has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4% for households without one. In fact, nearly 30% of homes have four or more vehicles.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Pinjar splits fairly evenly between 4 or more (31%) and 2 vehicles (27%), with 3 vehicles at 27%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one here commutes by public transport, a figure well below the Western Australian average of 4.7%. While 11.1% of people work from home, most residents rely on driving or walking to get to work.

11.1%

Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 21.4%
  • 2021: 11.1%

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

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 7.1%
  • 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 Pinjar, Car (driver) is the majority at 67%; Walked is next at 20%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent in Pinjar, with zero stops and zero routes. This leaves the area far below the state average for both the number of stops and weekly departures per 1,000 people.

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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).

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.

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting into the city takes about 59 minutes by car, which is around the middle for areas of this type.

59

Lower than 57% 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 Pinjar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51246/pinjar/topic/transport