2.7% —
Lower than 88% of state electorate areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Burns Beach (North Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Burns Beach (North Metropolitan)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer homes lack a car in Burns Beach compared to most similar areas. Only 2.7% of households are without a motor vehicle, making the area highly reliant on private transport for daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have multiple cars, with 43.4% owning two and 15.9% owning three. This high ownership rate is reflected in the fact that only 2.7% of households have no vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Burns Beach (North Metropolitan), the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (30%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, with 61.4% of people commuting as the driver. While 5.5% use public transport—a figure much higher than most similar areas—only 8.0% work from home, which is far below the Australian average of 21.0%.
8.0% —
Lower than 76% of state electorate areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
5.5% —
Higher than 86% 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Bus services dominate local travel, making up 97.5% of public transport use. However, the area has 1,172.2 weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is well below the Western Australian figure of 1,623.0.
216
Lower than 62% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.74
Higher than 53% 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).
1,172.2
Higher than 57% 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).
15
Lower than 77% 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 Burns Beach (North Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED51004/burns-beach/topic/transport