5.5% —
Lower than 51% of state electorate areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Kalgoorlie (Mining and Pastoral) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Kalgoorlie (Mining and Pastoral)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
About 66% of workers in Kalgoorlie (Mining and Pastoral) drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. Most households own at least one vehicle, though public transport options are far fewer than in other parts of the state.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one motor vehicle, with 38.4% owning two and 32.2% owning one. Only 5.5% of households have no vehicle, which is about the same as the Western Australian figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Kalgoorlie (Mining and Pastoral), the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people work from home here at 2.4%, a figure far below the national average of 21%. While 3.5% of residents use public transport to get to work, this is slightly lower than the state average.
2.4% —
Lower than 99% of state electorate areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.5% —
Higher than 66% 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is limited, with only 8 routes and 166 stops. The number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is 256.5, which is far below the Western Australian figure of 1,623.
166
Lower than 74% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.50
Lower than 52% 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).
256.5
Lower than 81% 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).
8
Lower than 89% of state electorate 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 Kalgoorlie (Mining and Pastoral) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED52803/kalgoorlie/topic/transport