6.5% ▼ -42.8%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 6.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
White Gum Valley · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in White Gum Valley
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A quick two-minute walk to the nearest stop makes daily travel easy for those in White Gum Valley. This area is well-connected, with 19 public transport stops and a short 19-minute drive to the city.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 6.5% of homes here have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas. Most households own either one or two cars, with 39.1% having two and 38.2% having one.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →White Gum Valley splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (38%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use for work is among the highest at this level, with 4.7% of workers using it. While 10.9% of people work from home, this is far below the national figure of 21%.
10.9% ▲ +136.1%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 10.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
4.7% ▼ -13.6%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 4.7%
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.
Public transport access is very strong, with 6 routes and 1,653.4 weekly departures per 1,000 people. These services are all bus-based and allow residents to reach over 110,000 people within 45 minutes.
19
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.66
Higher than 80% 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).
1,653.4
Higher than 90% 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).
6
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
15,377
Higher than 68% 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).
110,480
Higher than 81% 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).
60
Higher than 56% 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 convenient, as the walk to the nearest stop takes only 2 minutes. The drive time to the city is 19 minutes, which is much lower than in most other areas.
2
Lower than 86% 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.
19
Lower than 84% 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 White Gum Valley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51593/white-gum-valley/topic/transport