7.6% ▲ +703.9%
Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.9%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Broome · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Broome
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Very few people use public transport in Broome compared to other similar areas. Most residents rely on private cars to get around, though the number of homes without any motor vehicle has jumped to 7.6% since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Broome have at least one car, with 37.2% owning two vehicles. However, 7.6% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is much higher than in most areas and has risen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Broome splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (32%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Reliance on cars is high, as 63.1% of workers drive themselves and very few use public transport. Only 4.8% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure.
4.8% ▲ +78.7%
Lower than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.8% ▼ -82.7%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 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 Broome [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL513001/broome/topic/transport