4.5% ▼ -13.4%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.2%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 4.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Waroona · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Waroona
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Most households in Waroona now own at least one car, with 37.9% of homes keeping two vehicles. This reliance on private transport is clear in the local workforce, where only 6% of people work from home, a figure far below the national rate of 21%.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is common here, with nearly 30% of homes having three or more vehicles. Only 4.5% of households have no motor vehicle, which is about the same as the Western Australian figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Waroona, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 1 vehicle (31%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 65% of people commuting as the driver. Very few people use public transport for their commute at 1.4%, which is well below the state figure.
6.0% ▲ +27.8%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.7%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.4% ▼ -43.6%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 1.4%
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.
Waroona has six public transport stops and three routes, which is more than most similar areas. Despite this, weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the state average.
6
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.09
Higher than 66% 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).
20.2
Higher than 59% 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).
3
Higher than 79% 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.
The drive time to the city is 75 minutes, which is around the middle for areas of this level.
75
Higher than 53% 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 Waroona [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51536/waroona/topic/transport