6.3% ▼ -41.9%
Higher than 60% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 10.8%
- 2016: 7.2%
- 2021: 6.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
The Entrance · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in The Entrance
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Working from home has surged by 22 percentage points since 2011 in The Entrance, where 23.9% of people now avoid a daily commute. While the area has a high number of transport stops, very few residents actually use public transit for work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have at least one car, with 37.4% owning two. Only 6.3% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen by 4.5 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →The Entrance splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 50.9% of residents, while only 1.2% use public transport. This last figure is lower than most areas and has fallen by 13 percentage points since 2011.
23.9% ▲ +950.4%
Higher than 75% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 23.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.2% ▼ -91.5%
Lower than 72% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 1.2%
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.
The Entrance has a high level of service, with 540 stops and 37 routes. This results in 1,631.9 weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is a little above the New South Wales figure.
540
Higher than 90% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
7.10
Higher than 90% 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).
1,631.9
Higher than 74% 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).
37
Higher than 73% 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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in The Entrance [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10083/the-entrance/topic/transport