2.6% —
Lower than 90% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 2.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Warnbro (South Metropolitan) · State Electorate
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Cars are essential for daily life in Warnbro, where only 2.6% of homes have no motor vehicle. This reliance on driving is reflected in the low number of people working from home and a commute heavily dependent on private transport.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own multiple cars, with 43% having two and 16.4% having three. The tiny proportion of homes without a car is well below the Australian figure of 7.4% and has barely changed since 2016.
2.6% —
Lower than 90% of state electorate areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
In Warnbro (South Metropolitan), the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (29%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 62.6% of residents. Very few people work from home at 5.8%, which is far below the national figure of 21%, and public transport use for commuting fell to 3.8% since 2016.
5.8% —
Lower than 87% of state electorate areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.8% —
Higher than 70% 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.
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport access is limited, with 4.12 stops per 1,000 people, which is well below the Western Australian figure. Most of the 203 available stops are for buses, which make up 98% of the local public transport network.
203
Lower than 66% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.12
Lower than 60% 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).
1,238.8
Higher than 60% 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).
14
Lower than 79% of state electorate areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Warnbro (South Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED55605/warnbro/topic/transport