8.2% ▼ -27.0%
Higher than 82% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 8.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Katanning · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Katanning than in the rest of the country, with just 2.6% doing so. This makes the town's transport patterns very traditional, as the vast majority of residents rely on cars for their daily travel.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 8.2% of Katanning homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas and well above the state figure. However, this has fallen by 3 percentage points since 2011, and over a third of households now own two vehicles.
8.2% ▼ -27.0%
Higher than 82% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Katanning splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (35%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, with 69.4% of people as the driver and another 8.9% as a passenger. Public transport use is at 4.2%, which is among the highest for similar areas and slightly above the national figure.
2.6% ▼ -13.1%
Lower than 89% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
4.2% ▲ +8.3%
Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Katanning [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515019/katanning/topic/transport