4.8% ▼ -22.4%
Lower than 75% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Kalgoorlie - Boulder · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Kalgoorlie - Boulder
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Much higher rates of public transport use than similar areas mark the travel patterns in Kalgoorlie - Boulder. Most residents rely on cars, but a small number of people use buses or trains to get to work. This pattern remains steady, with very few people working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost 40% of homes in Kalgoorlie - Boulder have two motor vehicles. Only 4.8% of households have no vehicle at all, which is a little below the national figure and has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Kalgoorlie - Boulder, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (31%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
A vast majority of workers drive, with 70.3% using a car as the driver. Far fewer people work from home here compared to the rest of Australia, and the 2.3% who use public transport is much higher than in similar areas.
2.5% ▲ +42.8%
Lower than 98% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.3% ▼ -6.8%
Higher than 88% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 2.3%
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 Kalgoorlie - Boulder [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/5007/kalgoorlie-boulder/topic/transport