1.9% ▼ -85.5%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 1.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Dampier · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Dampier
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 1.9% of homes in Dampier lack a motor vehicle, making it an area where car ownership is far more common than across the rest of Australia. This high reliance on cars is reflected in the way people get to work, with very few residents working from home or using public transport.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, as 65.9% of households own three or more vehicles. This is a significant shift from 2011, when 12.9% of homes had no vehicle compared to just 1.9% today.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Dampier, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 47%, followed by 3 vehicles (19%) and 1 vehicle (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work for 67.5% of residents. Very few people work from home at 3.8%, a figure far below the national average of 21.0%.
3.8% ▲ +22.4%
Lower than 82% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -80.5%
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Dampier [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515008/dampier/topic/transport