2.3% ▼ -51.0%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.7%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 2.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Perth · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Perth
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Very few people in Perth (Tas.) are without a car, with only 2.3% of homes lacking a vehicle. This makes it a heavily car-reliant area where most households own at least two vehicles. While there are more transport stops here than in most similar areas, the local commute remains dominated by private travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are nearly universal here, as only 2.3% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. About 40.5% of households own two vehicles, and more than a quarter of homes have three or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Perth, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (30%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
The vast majority of workers drive, with 74.5% as the driver. Only 4.7% of people work from home, a figure that is far below the Australian average of 21.0%.
4.7% ▲ +74.8%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.9% ▲ +87.6%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 is provided entirely by buses, with 10 stops and 7 routes. While these figures are higher than in most similar areas, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Tasmanian average.
10
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.88
Higher than 69% 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).
171.4
Higher than 72% 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).
7
Higher than 86% 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.
Getting to the city takes a long time, with a typical drive time of 105 minutes, which is higher than most areas.
105
Higher than 72% 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 Perth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60503/perth/topic/transport