22.7% ▲ +68.0%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.5%
- 2016: 37.2%
- 2021: 22.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Roebourne · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Roebourne
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over half of workers in Roebourne drive themselves to work, though the town has an unusually high number of carless homes. While 56.3% of employees drive, about 22.7% of households have no motor vehicle at all, which is far above the national figure of 7.4%. This creates a mixed transport landscape where most people rely on cars but a significant minority do not.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
A striking 22.7% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure far above the Western Australian rate of 5.0%. For those with cars, the most common setup is two vehicles per home, occurring in 30.5% of households.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Roebourne splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (31%) and 1 vehicle (29%), with No vehicle at 23%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people work from home here, at just 2.0%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%. No one uses public transport to get to work, and while 56.3% drive, a notable 13.7% of workers walk to their jobs.
2.0% ▲ +38.8%
Lower than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.4%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is limited to buses, with only 4 stops and 2 routes available. While the number of stops is higher than most similar areas, the weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the Western Australian figure.
4
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.10
Higher than 74% 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).
62.6
Higher than 64% 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).
2
Higher than 75% 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.
Getting to a transit stop takes longer than in most similar areas, with a typical walk of 37 minutes to the nearest stop.
37
Higher than 72% 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 Roebourne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51305/roebourne/topic/transport