Dunsborough · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Dunsborough

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

Fewer than 1% of homes in Dunsborough now lack a motor vehicle, a sharp drop from 6.6% in 2011. This shift towards car ownership is paired with a rise in flexible work, where more people are now working from home than a decade ago.

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📍 Dunsborough, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Cars are essential here, with 49.1% of homes owning two vehicles and only 0.9% having none. This lack of car-free households is well below the 5.0% seen across Western Australia.

0.9% ▼ -85.8%

Lower than 79% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 6.6%
  • 2016: 1.6%
  • 2021: 0.9%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Dunsborough, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 49%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (12%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home rose to 12.2% since 2011, which is well above the state figure of 7.5%. Most people still drive to work, and public transport use is very low at just 1.0%.

12.2% ▲ +220.7%

Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 3.8%
  • 2016: 7.9%
  • 2021: 12.2%

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

1.0% ▲ +29.2%

Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.8%
  • 2016: 2.4%
  • 2021: 1.0%

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 Dunsborough, Car (driver) is the majority at 74%; Worked at home is next at 15%.

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 Dunsborough [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL514002/dunsborough/topic/transport