3.2% —
Lower than 83% of state electorate areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Forrestfield (East Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Forrestfield (East Metropolitan)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Very few people in Forrestfield get around without a car, with only 3.2% of homes lacking a motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households rely on multiple cars to get around the area.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is high here, with 40.4% of homes owning two vehicles and 15.5% owning three. Only 3.2% of homes have no car, which is a little below the Western Australian figure of 5.0%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Forrestfield (East Metropolitan), the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (31%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, with 68.5% of people as the driver. This is reflected in the low number of people working from home (5.6%), which is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%.
5.6% —
Lower than 88% of state electorate areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.0% —
Higher than 58% 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 access is strong, with 6.89 stops per 1,000 people, which is well above the state average. While there are 20 routes and 292 stops, the service is almost entirely based on buses.
292
Higher than 58% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
6.89
Higher than 89% 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).
1,473.8
Higher than 69% 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).
20
Lower than 67% 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 Forrestfield (East Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED52102/forrestfield/topic/transport