2.7% ▼ -17.6%
Lower than 96% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 2.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Karratha · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Karratha
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A massive 70.4% of workers in Karratha drive themselves to work, reflecting a heavy reliance on cars. This dependence is clear in the home data, where only 2.7% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Karratha have multiple cars, with 44.9% owning two and 17.8% owning three. Very few households get by without a vehicle, a trend that has barely changed since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Karratha, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 1 vehicle (26%) and 3 vehicles (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is rare here; at 2.5%, it is far below the Australian figure of 21%. Public transport use for work has also dropped sharply from 10.7% in 2011 to just 2.1% in 2021.
2.5% ▲ +46.1%
Lower than 97% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.1% ▼ -80.6%
Higher than 87% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 10.7%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 2.1%
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 Karratha [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/5008/karratha/topic/transport