4.5% ▼ -13.9%
Lower than 59% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 4.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Esperance · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Esperance
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Esperance than in the rest of Australia, with only 8.8% doing so. This reliance on physical workplaces is mirrored in the way people get around, as the vast majority of the community depends on private cars for their daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own multiple cars, with 38.9% having two and 25.6% owning three or more. Only 4.5% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that is a little below the national average and has barely changed since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Esperance, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (31%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 66.3% of people as the driver. Very few people use public transport to commute (0.7%), which is well below the Western Australian figure of 4.7%.
8.8% ▲ +4.0%
Lower than 72% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 8.5%
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 8.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▼ -27.4%
Lower than 56% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 1.0%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 0.7%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Esperance has 135 public transport stops, meaning there are 9.72 stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the state average. However, these bus services are infrequent, with weekly departures per 1,000 people being far below the state figure.
135
Higher than 65% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
9.72
Higher than 98% of council (lga) areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
141.9
Higher than 58% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled weekly public-transport departures from stops in the area, per 1,000 residents — how often transit actually runs, not just whether a stop exists (GTFS schedules for a representative week; population from the 2021 Census).
6
Lower than 52% of council (lga) areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
- Public transport timetables (GTFS) — State & territory transport agencies, 2026 (CC BY 4.0 (WA: custom PTA licence)).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Esperance [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA53290/esperance/topic/transport