5.0% ▼ -21.1%
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Western Australia · State / Territory
Transport & Vehicles in Western Australia
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Western Australia compared to the rest of the country, with a gap of 13 percentage points against the national figure. Most residents rely on their own cars to get around, and only 5% of homes have no motor vehicle at all.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own at least one car, with 39.6% having two vehicles. The proportion of homes without a car is 5.0%, which is a little below the Australian figure and has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Western Australia, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (34%) and 3 vehicles (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 62.1% of people. While 4.7% use public transport—a little above the national figure—the share of people working from home is far below the Australian average at 7.5%.
7.5% ▲ +88.3%
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 7.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
4.7% ▼ -21.9%
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 4.7%
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 state has a strong transport network, with weekly departures per 1,000 people being among the highest at this level. There are 14,585 public transport stops in total, and buses make up nearly all of these services at 96.7%.
14,585
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.48
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
1,623.0
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).
407
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 Western Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ste/5/western-australia/topic/transport