2.5% ▼ -19.6%
Lower than 91% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Murray-Wellington (South West) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Murray-Wellington (South West)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Murray-Wellington (South West) than across the rest of the country, with only 6.5% doing so. This reliance on travel is reflected in the high rate of car ownership, where only 2.5% of homes have no motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost 70% of households own two or more cars, and the 2.5% of homes without a vehicle is well below the national figure of 7.4%. This level of car ownership has barely changed since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Murray-Wellington (South West), the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (29%) and 3 vehicles (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, with 63.5% acting as the driver. Only 2.1% of workers use public transport, which is a little below the Western Australian figure of 4.7%.
6.5% ▲ +34.9%
Lower than 84% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 6.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.1% ▼ -17.4%
Lower than 54% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 2.1%
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 services are limited, with 204.3 weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the state figure of 1,623. The network consists of 185 stops, almost all of which are for buses.
185
Lower than 71% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.26
Lower than 57% 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).
204.3
Lower than 84% 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).
16
Lower than 76% 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 Murray-Wellington (South West) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED54006/murray-wellington/topic/transport