Katanning · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Katanning

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.

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📍 Katanning, Urban Centre

Vehicles

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.

  • 2011: 11.2%
  • 2016: 6.8%
  • 2021: 8.2%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Katanning splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (35%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.

Getting to work

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.

  • 2011: 2.9%
  • 2016: 2.2%
  • 2021: 2.6%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

4.2% ▲ +8.3%

Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 3.9%
  • 2016: 2.1%
  • 2021: 4.2%

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.

How people get to work

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In Katanning, Car (driver) is the majority at 78%; Car (passenger) is next at 10%.

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 Katanning [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515019/katanning/topic/transport