Busselton · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Busselton

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Fewer households in Busselton are without a car than in 2011, and more people are now working from home. Most residents rely heavily on private vehicles for their daily travel, with only 1.4% of workers using public transport to get to their jobs.

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📍 Busselton, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Very few homes in Busselton lack a car, at just 4.0%, which is well below the national figure. Most households own one or two vehicles, with 39.4% having two and 37.6% having one.

4.0% ▼ -32.9%

Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 6.0%
  • 2016: 4.3%
  • 2021: 4.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Busselton splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (38%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 66.1% of people as the driver. Working from home has risen to 5.9% since 2011, though this remains far below the Australian figure of 21.0%.

5.9% ▲ +52.3%

Lower than 65% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 3.9%
  • 2016: 4.3%
  • 2021: 5.9%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

1.4% ▲ +4.4%

Higher than 81% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 1.3%
  • 2016: 1.7%
  • 2021: 1.4%

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.

How people get to work

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In Busselton, Car (driver) is the majority at 80%; Worked at home is next at 7%.

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 Busselton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL512002/busselton/topic/transport