2.7% —
Lower than 88% of state electorate areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Collie-Preston (South West) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Collie-Preston (South West)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Collie-Preston than across the rest of the country. This is a place where most residents rely on their own cars to get around and get to work. Very few households are without a vehicle, and public transport options are limited.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 2.7% of homes here have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households own multiple cars, with 40.7% having two and 17.5% having three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Collie-Preston (South West), the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (29%) and 3 vehicles (17%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Getting to work is dominated by driving, as only 1.8% of people use public transport. Working from home is also rare here at 5.4%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%.
5.4% —
Lower than 89% of state electorate areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.8% —
Lower than 60% 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.
Public transport is scarce in this area, with only 2.9 stops per 1,000 people compared to the state figure of 5.48. The limited service is provided entirely by buses, with only 231.5 weekly departures per 1,000 people.
129
Lower than 80% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.90
Lower than 82% 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).
231.5
Lower than 82% 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).
9
Lower than 87% 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 Collie-Preston (South West) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED51706/collie-preston/topic/transport