0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Torndirrup · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Torndirrup
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero homes without a car mark Torndirrup as an area almost entirely reliant on private vehicles. This gap from the Western Australian average is striking, as nearly every household here owns at least one motor vehicle to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have multiple cars, with 40% owning two vehicles and 23.3% owning three. This means no homes in the area are without a motor vehicle, a figure well below the state and national averages.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Torndirrup, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 1 vehicle (28%) and 3 vehicles (22%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, used by 39.5% of residents. While 10.5% work from home—which is well above the state figure—this is far below the national average, and no one uses public transport to commute.
10.5% ▼ -69.9%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.0%
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
The area has one bus route and one stop, which is more than about 72% of similar areas. However, the number of stops and weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below Western Australian levels.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.53
Higher than 67% 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).
25.3
Higher than 60% 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 to the nearest transport stop is a challenge here, with a typical walk taking 78 minutes. This is among the highest travel times for this level of area.
78
Higher than 95% 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 Torndirrup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51463/torndirrup/topic/transport