5.0% ▲ +133.6%
Lower than 73% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Esperance · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Esperance
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 70% of workers in Esperance drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. Most households own multiple vehicles, and very few residents rely on public transport or work from home compared to the rest of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 39% of homes in Esperance have two motor vehicles, and only 5% of households have none. This lack of vehicle-free homes is a little below the national figure, though the number of homes without a car has risen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Esperance, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with only 0.8% of people using public transport—a figure well below the Western Australian average. Working from home is also uncommon here at 5.6%, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
5.6% ▲ +38.6%
Lower than 71% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.8% ▼ -62.5%
Higher than 59% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 1.0%
- 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 Esperance [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/5005/esperance/topic/transport