9.2% ▲ +12.2%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 14.5%
- 2021: 9.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Leinster · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Leinster
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A significant gap exists between Leinster and the rest of the country in how people travel, with public transport use well above the national figure. While nearly half of workers drive themselves, the area is also marked by a higher number of carless homes compared to most other places.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 9.2% of homes in Leinster have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas and well above the Western Australian figure of 5.0%. Nearly half of all households own just one vehicle, while 33.7% have two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Leinster, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 49%, followed by 2 vehicles (35%) and No vehicle (9%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use for work has jumped to 12.7% since 2011, a figure well above the national average of 3.1%. Very few people work from home at 3.2%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%.
3.2% ▼ -30.8%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 3.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
12.7% ▲ —
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 12.7%
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.
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 Leinster [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522042/leinster/topic/transport