0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Westdale · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Westdale
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Few areas at this level have such a high rate of remote work as Westdale, where 45.2% of people work from home. This independence from a daily commute is a defining feature of the area, which lacks any public transport options.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Westdale has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the state and national figures. Nearly 30% of households have four or more vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Westdale splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (32%) and 4 or more (32%), with 1 vehicle at 19%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far more common here than in the rest of the state, with 45.2% of workers doing so. No one uses public transport to get to work, and the rest primarily drive or walk.
45.2% —
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 46.7%
- 2021: 45.2%
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 no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means the number of weekly departures is far below the Western Australian figure.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
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).
0.0
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).
0
Lower than 99% 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 typical drive time to the city is 67 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.
67
Lower than 52% 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 Westdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51587/westdale/topic/transport