0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Popanyinning · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Popanyinning
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Driving is essential in Popanyinning, where every single household owns at least one motor vehicle. While the area has more public transport stops per person than the state average, these services are rarely used by locals for commuting.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
No homes in Popanyinning are without a car, a figure well below the national average. Most households have two vehicles, and nearly a quarter of homes own four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Popanyinning splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (33%) and 1 vehicle (30%), with 4 or more at 24%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here commutes using public transport, which is well below the state and national figures. Instead, 51.1% drive and 16% work from home, which is well above the Western Australian average.
16.0% ▼ -31.9%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.4%
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 16.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
The area has 9.62 public transport stops per 1,000 people, far above the state average. However, with only one bus route, the number of weekly departures is far below the state figure.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
9.62
Higher than 87% 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).
57.7
Higher than 64% 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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting around takes time, with a 112-minute drive to the city. It is also a long walk to the nearest transit stop, taking about 24 minutes, which is higher than most similar areas.
24
Higher than 62% 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.
112
Higher than 76% 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)).
- 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 Popanyinning [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51255/popanyinning/topic/transport