Seppings · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Seppings

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

High car ownership and limited public transport use define Seppings, where every single household owns at least one motor vehicle. While the area has more stops and routes than most similar places, almost no one uses them to get to work.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home in Seppings has a car, which is well below the state and national figures for households without a vehicle. Most homes have two cars, while about 33% have just one.

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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Seppings splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (32%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 63.9% of residents as drivers. No one uses public transport to commute, and only 6.2% work from home, which is far below the national figure.

6.2%

Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 6.2%

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

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Seppings, Car (driver) is the majority at 85%; Worked at home is next at 8%.

Public transport access

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

Seppings has 11.3 stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the state average. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state figure, and all services are buses.

11.30

Higher than 88% 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).

197.7

Higher than 73% 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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The walk to the nearest public transport stop takes about 5 minutes, which is lower than in most similar areas.

5

Lower than 68% 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.

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 Seppings [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51338/seppings/topic/transport