1.9% ▼ -55.0%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 1.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tom Price · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Tom Price
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more people use public transport to get to work in Tom Price than in most other parts of the country. While 17.4% of workers use these services, the town has very few people working from home compared to the national figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common here, with 40.5% of homes having two vehicles. Only 1.9% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the figures for Western Australia and Australia.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Tom Price splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport is a major way to get to work for 17.4% of residents, which is far above the state and national figures. Conversely, only 2.3% of people work from home, one of the lowest rates for this level.
2.3% ▲ +148.5%
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.9%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 2.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
17.4% ▼ -33.7%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.3%
- 2016: 21.2%
- 2021: 17.4%
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.
Despite the high use of transit for commuting, there are no public transport stops or routes in the area, leaving it far below the Western Australian average.
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).
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)).
More for Tom Price
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Tom Price [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51456/tom-price/topic/transport