4.3% ▼ -17.1%
Lower than 83% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 5.2%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bunbury · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Bunbury
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer people are using public transport to get to work in Bunbury than they did in 2011. Most residents rely heavily on cars, with 4.3% of homes having no motor vehicle—a figure that is well below the national average. This makes the area much more vehicle-dependent than many other parts of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 40.4% owning two and 14.1% owning three. Only 4.3% of households have no vehicle, which is about the same as the Western Australian figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Bunbury, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (34%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is rare here; only 4% of people do so, which is far below the national figure of 21%. Reliance on cars is high, with 68.7% of workers driving themselves and only 1.7% using public transport.
4.0% ▲ +57.2%
Lower than 87% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.7% ▼ -41.0%
Higher than 86% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 1.7%
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.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Bunbury [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/5003/bunbury/topic/transport