10.1% ▲ +443.7%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 10.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Carnarvon · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Carnarvon
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Carnarvon than in the rest of the country, with only 3.2% doing so. This gap highlights a local workforce that mostly relies on physical presence at their jobs. While most households own a car, a growing number now have no vehicle at all.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
A striking 10.1% of Carnarvon homes have no motor vehicle, which is well above the Western Australian figure of 5.0%. This represents a sharp rise from 2011, when only 1.9% of homes were without a car.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Carnarvon splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most workers here drive themselves to work, with 61.9% as the driver. Very few people work from home compared to the national figure, though 3.8% of the workforce uses public transport, which is among the highest for similar areas.
3.2% ▲ +70.1%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 3.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.8% ▲ +49.4%
Higher than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 3.8%
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 Carnarvon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515006/carnarvon/topic/transport