7.6% ▼ -13.5%
Higher than 83% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Broome · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Broome
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Broome than in the rest of the country, with only 4.8% doing so. Most residents rely on private cars to get around, though a higher share of homes lack a vehicle compared to most similar areas.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Around 7.6% of homes in Broome have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas and a little above the Western Australian figure. This is a slight drop from 8.8% in 2011, while 37.2% of homes now own two cars.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Broome splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (32%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Only 0.8% of people use public transport to get to work, which is well below the state figure. This reliance on cars is further shown by the fact that working from home is far below the national figure at 4.8%.
4.8% ▲ +27.3%
Lower than 79% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.8% ▼ -31.1%
Higher than 60% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 0.8%
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.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Broome [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/5002/broome/topic/transport