2.7% ▼ -17.6%
Lower than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 2.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Karratha · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Karratha
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over 70% of workers in Karratha drive themselves to work, highlighting a heavy reliance on cars for daily travel. Most households own multiple vehicles, and very few residents work from home compared to the rest of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common here, with 44.9% of homes owning two vehicles and 17.8% owning three. Only 2.7% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
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, with only 2.5% of people doing so, a figure far below the Australian average of 21%. While 2.1% of residents use public transport to get to work, this is much higher than in most similar areas, despite falling from 10.7% in 2011.
2.5% ▲ +46.1%
Lower than 89% of urban centre 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% ▼ -80.5%
Higher than 87% of urban centre 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/ucl/UCL513003/karratha/topic/transport