4.8% ▼ -28.9%
Lower than 75% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 6.8%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Geraldton · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Geraldton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every household in Geraldton relies on a car to get around, with only 4.8% of homes having no motor vehicle. This heavy dependence on driving is reflected in the commute, where nearly 70% of workers drive themselves to work each day.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very common here, with 39% of homes owning two vehicles and 21.6% having three or more. The number of homes without a car fell 2 percentage points since 2011 to reach a level slightly below the national figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Geraldton splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, while only 1.2% of people use public transport. Working from home is far less common than across Australia, with just 4% of the workforce doing so.
4.0% ▲ +40.4%
Lower than 87% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.2% ▼ -9.9%
Higher than 73% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 1.2%
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 Geraldton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/5006/geraldton/topic/transport