9.5% ▼ -25.5%
Higher than 83% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2021: 9.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Victoria Park (South Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Victoria Park (South Metropolitan)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more people use public transport in Victoria Park than in the rest of Western Australia. This is a well-connected area where 11% of workers commute via transit and 9.5% of homes have no motor vehicle. These figures are well above the state and national averages.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About one in ten homes here do not own a car, which is much higher than most areas and well above the state figure of 5%. While this has fallen slightly since 2011, most households still rely on cars, with 43.2% owning one vehicle and 33.5% owning two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Victoria Park (South Metropolitan), the largest group is 1 vehicle at 43%, followed by 2 vehicles (34%) and No vehicle (9%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use for work is among the highest for this area type and well above the national figure of 3.1%. In contrast, working from home is far below the Australian average of 21%, though it has risen to 6.9% since 2011.
6.9% ▲ +182.6%
Lower than 81% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2021: 6.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
11.0% ▼ -24.7%
Higher than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 14.6%
- 2021: 11.0%
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.
The area is exceptionally well-served, with 3,800.9 weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far above the state figure. This high access is supported by 351 stops and 39 routes, with buses making up 96.8% of the available services.
351
Higher than 73% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
7.22
Higher than 91% 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).
3,800.9
Higher than 99% 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).
39
Higher than 75% 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 Victoria Park (South Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED55405/victoria-park/topic/transport