8.2% ▼ -6.3%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 8.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Katanning · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Katanning
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 70% of people in Katanning drive themselves to work, making the car the primary way to get around. While most homes own at least one vehicle, a higher proportion of households here live without a car compared to the state average.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 8.2% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well above the Western Australia figure of 5.0%. Most households have one or two vehicles, with 35.8% owning two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Katanning splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Only 2.9% of people work from home, a figure far below the Australian average of 21%. Public transport use is a little above the national figure, with 4.2% of workers using it to get to work.
2.9% ▼ -49.1%
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 2.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
4.2% ▲ +148.2%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 4.2%
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.
Katanning has three public transport routes and two stops, which is more than most similar areas. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state figure.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.55
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
6.6
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality 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
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
It takes much longer for people here to reach the nearest stop on foot than in most other areas, with a typical walk of 48 minutes.
48
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
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)).
- Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Katanning [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50742/katanning/topic/transport