0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
West River · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in West River
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A massive 43.1% of workers in West River work from home, a figure far above both the state and national averages. This reliance on home-based work is mirrored by a heavy dependence on private cars for those who do travel. Almost every household here owns a motor vehicle, with nearly half owning four or more.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
No home in the area is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the 5% state average. Car ownership is high, as 48.1% of households have four or more vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In West River, the largest group is 4 or more at 46%, followed by 1 vehicle (21%) and 3 vehicles (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
While 43.1% of the workforce is among the highest in the country for working from home, no one uses public transport to get to work. This is well below the 3.1% national figure.
43.1% —
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 42.6%
- 2021: 43.1%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
There are 28.17 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the state average. However, the 56.3 weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Western Australian figure of 1,623.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
28.17
Higher than 96% 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).
56.3
Higher than 64% 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).
2
Higher than 75% 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in West River [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51584/west-river/topic/transport