1.1% ▼ -35.8%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 1.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wattle Grove · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Wattle Grove
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer homes lack a car in Wattle Grove than in most of Australia. This is a place where almost every household owns a vehicle, and most have two or more, making private transport the primary way people get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Nearly half of all homes here have two vehicles, and only 1.1% of households have no motor vehicle. This is well below the 5% seen across Western Australia and the 7.4% national figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Wattle Grove, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 49%, followed by 1 vehicle (21%) and 3 vehicles (17%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive themselves to work, with 69.1% using a car as a driver. Only 6.7% of residents work from home, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%.
6.7% ▲ +102.3%
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 6.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.7% ▼ -46.1%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.9%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 2.7%
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.
Wattle Grove has 57 public transport stops and 5 routes, which is among the highest for its size. However, it takes a long time to reach the city by transit, and all available services are buses.
57
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
8.71
Higher than 87% 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).
894.6
Higher than 86% 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).
5
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
0
Lower than 99% 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).
0
Lower than 99% 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).
88
Higher than 99% 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 around is quick for those with cars, as the drive time to the city is only 16 minutes. Residents also live very close to transport, with a typical one-minute walk to the nearest stop.
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.
16
Lower than 87% 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 Wattle Grove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51549/wattle-grove/topic/transport