Toodyay · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Toodyay

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

Driving is the main way people get around in Toodyay (L), with 64.5% of workers using a car as the driver. While most homes have at least one car, about 7.2% of households have none, which is much higher than in most similar areas.

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📍 Toodyay, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have one or two cars, but the 7.2% of households without a vehicle is a little above the Western Australian figure. This proportion has fallen by 1.5 percentage points since 2011.

7.2% ▼ -16.9%

Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 8.7%
  • 2016: 4.9%
  • 2021: 7.2%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Toodyay, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 43%, followed by 2 vehicles (32%) and 3 vehicles (9%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Very few people use public transport to get to work, at just 0.9%, which is well below the state average. Meanwhile, the number of people working from home rose 5.1 percentage points since 2011 to reach 8.2%, though this remains far below the national figure.

8.2% ▲ +168.2%

Higher than 52% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 3.0%
  • 2016: 1.8%
  • 2021: 8.2%

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

0.9% ▲ +3.1%

Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.9%
  • 2016: 40.6%
  • 2021: 0.9%

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 Toodyay, Car (driver) is the majority at 79%; Worked at home is next at 10%.

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 Toodyay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521048/toodyay/topic/transport