7.3% ▲ +39.2%
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.2%
- 2016: 7.9%
- 2021: 7.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Northam · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Northam
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 69% of working residents in Northam drive themselves to work, making cars the dominant way to get around. While most homes have at least one vehicle, the area has seen a rise in households without a car, which now stands at 7.3%.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 7.3% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas and has risen since 2011. Most homes have one or two cars, with 36.6% owning one and 35.5% owning two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Northam splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use for work has fallen sharply to just 0.6% since 2011, leaving it well below the state figure. Similarly, only 3.9% of people work from home, which is far below the national average.
3.9% ▲ +175.6%
Lower than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 3.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -93.2%
Higher than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Northam [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL514004/northam/topic/transport