5.0% ▼ -22.6%
Lower than 73% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Perth · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Perth
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than six out of ten people in Perth drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. While most homes have at least one vehicle, a small number of residents rely on public transport and working from home to reach their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 5.0% of Perth homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen since 2011. Most households have one or two cars, with about 40% of homes owning two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Perth splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use for commuting is among the highest for similar areas at 5.2%, though this is a little above the national figure of 3.1%. Working from home has risen to 7.6% since 2011, but this remains far below the Australian average of 21.0%.
7.6% ▲ +125.2%
Lower than 56% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
5.2% ▼ -20.3%
Higher than 99% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 6.6%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 5.2%
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 Perth [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/5009/perth/topic/transport