West Pingelly · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in West Pingelly

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Nearly half of all homes in West Pingelly have two motor vehicles, making private cars the primary way people move. The area is highly reliant on personal transport, with a significant number of residents working from home to avoid long trips.

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📍 West Pingelly, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home in the area has at least one vehicle, which is well below the national figure where 7.4% of households have none. About 23% of homes own four or more vehicles.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 7.9%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In West Pingelly, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 1 vehicle (22%) and 4 or more (22%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is very common here, with 28.1% of people doing so, which is far above the Western Australian rate of 7.5%. No one in the area uses public transport to get to work.

28.1%

Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 21.4%
  • 2021: 28.1%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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.

How people get to work

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In West Pingelly, Car (driver) is the majority at 54%; Worked at home is next at 33%.

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 the number of weekly departures is far below the state average.

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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).

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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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting to the city is a long trip, with a typical drive time of 104 minutes, which is higher than most similar areas.

104

Higher than 71% 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 West Pingelly [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51581/west-pingelly/topic/transport