Stirling Estate · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Stirling Estate

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

Zero households without a car makes Stirling Estate an area with much higher vehicle reliance than the national figure. The community is almost entirely dependent on private transport, as there are no public transport stops or routes available.

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📍 Stirling Estate, 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 7.4% of Australian households that have none. Most families have two or three cars, with 38.2% owning two and 32.7% owning three.

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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In Stirling Estate, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 3 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (12%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Nobody in the area commutes by public transport, and 59.5% of workers drive themselves. About 17.7% of the workforce works from home, a figure that is far above the Western Australian average.

17.7%

Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 9.3%
  • 2021: 17.7%

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 Stirling Estate, Car (driver) is the majority at 73%; Worked at home is next at 22%.

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, leaving it far below the Western Australian figure for service access. This means there are zero 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).

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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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting around is difficult without a car, as the walk to the nearest stop takes much longer than in most areas, at 65 minutes. The drive time to the city is also much higher than most areas, taking 115 minutes.

65

Higher than 88% 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.

115

Higher than 78% 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 Stirling Estate [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51406/stirling-estate/topic/transport