4.8% —
Lower than 61% of state electorate areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Geraldton (Agricultural) · State Electorate
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Geraldton (Agricultural) compared to the rest of the country, with only 4.2% doing so. This reliance on traveling to work is mirrored by a heavy dependance on cars and very low use of public transport for the daily commute.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have at least one car, and 38.8% of households own two. Only 4.8% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the national figure.
4.8% —
Lower than 61% of state electorate areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Geraldton (Agricultural) splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 69.6% of people as the driver. Just 1.2% use public transport, which is well below the Western Australian figure of 4.7%.
4.2% —
Lower than 95% of state electorate areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.2% —
Lower than 72% of state electorate areas.
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.
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
While there are 312 public transport stops and 13 routes, the service is infrequent. The number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state figure.
312
Higher than 64% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
8.01
Higher than 97% of state electorate areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
384.5
Lower than 75% of state electorate 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).
13
Lower than 81% of state electorate areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Geraldton (Agricultural) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED52301/geraldton/topic/transport