2.6% —
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Yanchep · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more people in Yanchep use public transport to get to work than in most similar areas. While cars remain the primary way to get around, the area has a very low rate of car-less households, with only 2.6% of homes lacking a motor vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every home in Yanchep has a car, which is well below the Australian figure of 7.4% for those without one. The most common setup is two vehicles per home, shared by 41.8% of households.
2.6% —
Lower than 64% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Yanchep splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (42%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
How people travel to work.
Nearly 60% of workers drive themselves to work, while 6.6% work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%. Despite the car's dominance, 2.8% of the workforce uses public transport, a figure much higher than in most similar areas.
6.6% —
Lower than 59% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.8% —
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Yanchep [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL513005/yanchep/topic/transport