2.7% —
Lower than 89% of state electorate areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Baldivis (South Metropolitan) · State Electorate
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over 62% of workers in Baldivis drive themselves to work, making cars the dominant way to get around. This reliance on vehicles is clear across the area, where very few homes go without a car. While most people commute by road, a small number use public transport to reach their jobs.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common here, with 44.2% of homes owning two vehicles. Only 2.7% of households have no motor vehicle, which is much lower than most areas and well below the national figure of 7.4%.
2.7% —
Lower than 89% of state electorate areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
In Baldivis (South Metropolitan), the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, and only 5.4% of people work from home, which is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%. Around 4.8% of residents commute using public transport, a figure that is a little above the national average.
5.4% —
Lower than 89% of state electorate areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
4.8% —
Higher than 79% of state electorate areas.
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.
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is mostly provided by buses, which make up 94.7% of the network. With 4.22 stops per 1,000 people, the area has far fewer weekly departures than the Western Australian average.
242
Lower than 55% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.22
Lower than 58% 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).
787.7
Lower than 59% 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).
19
Lower than 70% of state electorate areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Baldivis (South Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED50405/baldivis/topic/transport