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.
Upper Capel · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Upper Capel
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car ownership has remained the primary way people move in Upper Capel, where every single home owns at least one motor vehicle. This reliance on private cars is reinforced by a total lack of public transport options and a long drive to the city.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every home in the area has a car, which is well below the national figure where 7.4% of households have none. Most residents own multiple vehicles, with 39.3% having two and 34.4% having three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Upper Capel splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 3 vehicles (34%), with 1 vehicle at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Almost 19% of people work from home, which is far above the Western Australian figure of 7.5%. For those who travel, 46.2% drive themselves, while 0.0% use public transport to get to work.
18.7% ▲ +9.9%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.0%
- 2016: 14.7%
- 2021: 18.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure far below the state average of 1,623.
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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting into the city is a significant trip for residents, with a drive time of 132 minutes, which is much higher than most similar areas.
132
Higher than 86% 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 Upper Capel [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51480/upper-capel/topic/transport