6.8% ▼ -6.5%
Higher than 64% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 7.2%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 6.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Prospect · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Prospect
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A huge surge in remote work has transformed how people in Prospect get around since 2011. Working from home jumped by 29 percentage points to reach 32.9% of the workforce. While the area has a high number of public transport stops, most residents still rely on cars or their own homes for daily activity.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own at least one car, with 37% having two vehicles. About 6.8% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that has barely changed since 2011 and is slightly lower than the New South Wales figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Prospect splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far more common here than across Australia, at 32.9%. Driving is still the most popular choice for 40.3% of workers, while public transport use is about the same as the state average at 2.6%.
32.9% ▲ +702.5%
Higher than 86% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 32.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.6% ▲ +77.5%
Higher than 52% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 10.6%
- 2021: 2.6%
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.
Prospect has 601 public transport stops, making it one of the largest for its type. With 6.78 stops and 1,763 weekly departures per 1,000 people, access is well above the New South Wales figures, though almost all services are buses.
601
Higher than 93% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
6.78
Higher than 88% of state electorate areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
1,763.0
Higher than 78% of state electorate 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).
27
Higher than 51% of state electorate 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 Prospect [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10070/prospect/topic/transport