15.8% ▲ +34.2%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 12.2%
- 2021: 15.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Yalgoo · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Yalgoo
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over a quarter of people in Yalgoo drive themselves to work, reflecting a reliance on cars in this rural area. While most homes own multiple vehicles, an unusual 15.8% of households have no motor vehicle at all, which is far above the Western Australian figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 34% of homes have two cars, but 15.8% of households have no vehicle. This lack of a car is well above the national figure of 7.4% and among the highest for similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Yalgoo, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 35%, followed by 1 vehicle (27%) and No vehicle (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking is a common choice for 17.3% of workers, while 7.3% use public transport, which is well above the Australian average. Only 3.6% of people work from home, a figure far below the national rate of 21%.
3.6% ▼ -53.5%
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 3.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
7.3% ▼ -57.9%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.3%
- 2016: 17.0%
- 2021: 7.3%
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.
Yalgoo has 9.58 public transport 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, with only buses serving the single local route.
3
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
9.58
Higher than 87% 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Yalgoo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51662/yalgoo/topic/transport