88.5% ▲ +27.8%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 69.2%
- 2016: 87.0%
- 2021: 88.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Rottnest Island · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Rottnest Island
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people own cars in Rottnest Island than in almost any other similar area. Nearly 89% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure far above the national average of 7.4%. This makes it an unusual place where the vast majority of people get around without a car.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
A huge 88.5% of homes here have no motor vehicle, which is far above the 5% seen across Western Australia. Only 9.6% of households have two vehicles, and 5.8% have just one.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Rottnest Island, No vehicle is the majority at 85%; 2 vehicles is next at 9%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most residents rely on active travel, with 45.2% walking and 23.8% cycling to work. Very few people work from home at 2.4%, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
2.4% ▲ —
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.2% ▲ —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 3.2%
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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area, meaning there are far fewer than the state average. Despite this, 16,720 people can be reached within 30 minutes via transit, which is more than in about 71% of similar areas.
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).
16,720
Higher than 70% 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).
16,720
Lower than 53% 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).
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).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Rottnest Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51314/rottnest-island/topic/transport