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.
Wellstead · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Wellstead
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every household in Wellstead has a car, a far more common sight than in the rest of Western Australia. This reliance on private vehicles is a defining feature of the area, where 75% of homes own at least two vehicles.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Wellstead has a motor vehicle, which is well below the 5.0% of Western Australian households that have none. Three-quarters of homes own two or more cars, with 37.5% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Wellstead splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (33%) and 4 or more (33%), with 1 vehicle at 19%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
While 20.0% of people work from home—far above the state figure—nobody uses public transport to get to work. Nearly half of the workforce drives themselves, and 20.0% walk to their jobs.
20.0% ▼ -38.6%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.6%
- 2016: 21.6%
- 2021: 20.0%
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: 3.4%
- 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, meaning there are 12.82 stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the state average. However, the number of weekly departures is far below the Western Australian figure.
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.
12.82
Higher than 89% 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).
25.6
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).
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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Wellstead [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51562/wellstead/topic/transport