Beagle Bay · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Beagle Bay

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

Far more homes lack a car in Beagle Bay than in most similar areas. This is a striking shift for the community, with the proportion of carless households climbing by 32 percentage points since 2011 to reach 34.5%.

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📍 Beagle Bay, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

About 34.5% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure far above the 5.0% seen across Western Australia. While 42.5% of households have one vehicle, the number of car-free homes has risen sharply since 2011.

34.5% ▲ +1543.7%

Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.1%
  • 2016: 50.0%
  • 2021: 34.5%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Beagle Bay, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 41%, followed by No vehicle (33%) and 2 vehicles (13%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Walking is a primary way to get to work for 38.0% of residents, which helps explain why 0.0% of people use public transport. No one in the area works from home, a rate far below the 21.0% national figure.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 3.2%
  • 2016: 6.3%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.7%
  • 2016: 7.8%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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 Beagle Bay, Car (driver) is the majority at 51%; Walked is next at 44%.

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 Beagle Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522005/beagle-bay/topic/transport