3.2% —
Lower than 82% of state electorate areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Dawesville (South West) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Dawesville (South West)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 3.2% of households in Dawesville have no motor vehicle, which is much lower than most similar areas. This reliance on cars is reflected in the way people get to work, with 60.1% of the workforce driving themselves. While there are more transit stops here than in many other areas, the community remains heavily dependent on private transport.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every home in the area owns a car, and 40.2% have two vehicles. This means far fewer households are without a car compared to the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Dawesville (South West) splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people here drive to work, and only 7% work from home, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%. Those using public transport to commute make up 3.5% of the workforce, a rate higher than most similar areas.
7.0% —
Lower than 81% of state electorate areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.5% —
Higher than 66% 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.
Dawesville has 5.54 stops per 1,000 people, which is higher than most areas. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Western Australian figure, and all available services are bus routes.
237
Lower than 56% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.54
Higher than 70% 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).
923.4
Lower than 53% 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).
10
Lower than 86% 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 Dawesville (South West) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED52006/dawesville/topic/transport