0.9% ▼ -25.6%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Pink Lake · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Pink Lake
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Transport patterns in Pink Lake have remained steady over the last decade, with a heavy reliance on private cars. Very few people here go without a vehicle, and the vast majority of residents use a car to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high in Pink Lake, where only 0.9% of homes have no motor vehicle. This is well below the 7.4% national figure, with 78.7% of households owning two or more vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Pink Lake, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 35%, followed by 3 vehicles (25%) and 1 vehicle (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, with 68.9% of the workforce acting as the driver. Only 6.2% of people work from home, which is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%.
6.2% ▲ +2.0%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.1%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 6.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.2% ▼ -24.3%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 0.7%
- 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.
Public transport is limited to a single bus route. While the area has more stops per person than most similar areas, the 14.4 weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Western Australian figure.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.96
Higher than 61% 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).
14.4
Higher than 59% 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).
1
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Pink Lake [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51248/pink-lake/topic/transport