1.5% ▼ -59.2%
Lower than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 1.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tom Price · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Tom Price
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost 18% of workers use public transport to get to work in Tom Price, a figure far above the national average. This reliance on shared travel is a standout feature of the area, where cars are otherwise essential and very few homes go without a vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common here, with 41.1% of homes owning two vehicles and only 1.5% having none. This lack of vehicle-free homes is well below the state and national figures, and the trend has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Tom Price, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (36%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use for work is among the highest for similar areas, rising 14 points since 2011 to reach 17.7%. In contrast, working from home is far less common than across Australia, falling to just 2.3%.
2.3% ▼ -44.6%
Lower than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 2.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
17.7% ▲ +441.8%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 17.7%
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 Tom Price [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515033/tom-price/topic/transport