3.8% ▲ +28.7%
Lower than 70% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Ravensthorpe · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Ravensthorpe
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
High rates of public transport use for work set Ravensthorpe apart from most similar areas. While about 9.2% of workers use these services, the vast majority of the community relies on private cars to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common here, with 73.6% of homes owning either one or two vehicles. Only 3.8% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Ravensthorpe splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Half of workers drive themselves to work, though 9.2% use public transport, a figure well above both the state and national averages. Conversely, only 9.9% work from home, which is far below the Australian average of 21%.
9.9% ▼ -10.5%
Lower than 64% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 9.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
9.2% ▼ -16.9%
Higher than 95% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 9.2%
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.
There are 5.28 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is much higher than most similar areas. However, the 32.6 weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Western Australian figure of 1,623.
11
Lower than 60% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.28
Higher than 75% 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).
32.6
Lower than 56% 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).
3
Lower than 62% 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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Ravensthorpe [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA57420/ravensthorpe/topic/transport