5.7% ▼ -35.8%
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Esperance · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Esperance
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Reliance on cars is a central part of daily life in Esperance, where 70.5% of workers drive themselves to their jobs. Most households keep multiple vehicles, and very few people use public transport to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 39.5% of homes in Esperance have two vehicles, and only 5.7% have none. This lack of a car is a little below the national figure and has fallen by 3.2 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Esperance splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here than across Australia, at just 4.7%. Public transport use is also very low at 0.8%, a figure that is well below the Western Australian average and has barely changed since 2011.
4.7% ▲ +23.6%
Lower than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 4.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.8% ▼ -29.8%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 1.0%
- 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 Esperance [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL513002/esperance/topic/transport