Yanmah · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Yanmah

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

Private cars are essential for life in Yanmah, where every single household now owns at least one motor vehicle. While traditional commuting habits have shifted, the area remains heavily reliant on personal transport due to a complete lack of public transit options.

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📍 Yanmah, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Not a single home in Yanmah is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the 7.4% national figure. Most households are well-equipped, with 39.6% owning two cars and another 43.4% owning three or more.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.2%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Yanmah, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 36%, followed by 1 vehicle (24%) and 3 vehicles (22%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common here, with 22.6% of people doing so—a figure far above the Western Australian average of 7.5%. For those who do travel, 50% drive themselves to work and none use public transport.

22.6% ▲ +72.9%

Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 13.1%
  • 2016: 14.5%
  • 2021: 22.6%

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

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 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 Yanmah, Car (driver) is the majority at 58%; Worked at home is next at 26%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

There are no public transport stops or routes in Yanmah. This puts the area far below the Western Australian average for transit access, with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people.

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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).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Yanmah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51671/yanmah/topic/transport