7.6% ▼ -32.6%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.3%
- 2016: 9.1%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tuart Hill · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Tuart Hill
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Just a one-minute walk to the nearest stop makes Tuart Hill one of the most accessible areas for public transport. The suburb is well-connected with 15 different routes and 34 stops, allowing residents to reach over 86,000 people within 45 minutes by transit.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 7.6% of homes here have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas and a little above the Western Australian figure of 5.0%. Over half of households rely on a single vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Tuart Hill, 1 vehicle is the majority at 53%; 2 vehicles is next at 31%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use for work is 7.6%, which is among the highest for similar areas and well above the national figure of 3.1%. Meanwhile, only 6.3% of people work from home, a figure far below the Australian average.
6.3% ▲ +190.0%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 6.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
7.6% ▼ -18.9%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 9.6%
- 2021: 7.6%
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 4.51 transport stops per 1,000 people, which is much higher than most similar areas. All public transport services here are buses, and the transit time to the city is lower than in most areas.
34
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.51
Higher than 75% 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).
1,389.1
Higher than 88% 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).
15
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
27,440
Higher than 80% 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).
86,122
Higher than 76% 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).
50
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport + walking time, in minutes, from the area to its capital city centre on a weekday morning (R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network). Blank where no scheduled service connects the area to the city.
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to the city is very quick, with a drive time of just 9 minutes, among the lowest at this level.
1
Lower than 99% 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.
9
Lower than 96% 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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- 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 Tuart Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51472/tuart-hill/topic/transport