4.8% ▼ -34.3%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.4%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Kalgoorlie - Boulder · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Kalgoorlie - Boulder
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Much higher proportions of people use public transport to get to work in Kalgoorlie - Boulder than in most similar areas. While the city is heavily reliant on cars, there is a small but growing number of people using buses for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have multiple cars, with 39.5% owning two and 15.5% owning three. Very few households get by without a car, and that figure has fallen to 4.8% 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.
Driving is the main way to get around, with 70.3% of workers being the driver. Working from home is very rare at just 2.5%, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
2.5% ▼ -4.9%
Lower than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.3% ▲ +76.6%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 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/ucl/UCL512004/kalgoorlie-boulder/topic/transport