5.1% ▼ -22.8%
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.5%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Perth · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Perth
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Daily travel in Perth (WA) is heavily reliant on cars, though a higher number of people use public transport to get to work than in most similar areas. While 62.1% of workers drive themselves, the city's transport patterns show a small but steady increase in those working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 39.9% owning two and 12.8% owning three. About 5.1% of households have no motor vehicle, which is higher than most areas and has fallen slightly since 2011.
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 work is among the highest at this level at 5.3%, which is a little above the national figure. However, the 7.5% of people working from home is far below the Australian average of 21%.
7.5% ▲ +129.1%
Lower than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 7.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
5.3% ▼ -20.3%
Higher than 96% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 5.3%
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/ucl/UCL501001/perth/topic/transport