1.2% ▼ -97.2%
Lower than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 44.4%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 1.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Boyanup · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Boyanup
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A massive drop in the number of car-less homes is the main story for Boyanup, where almost every household now owns a vehicle. Only 1.2% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen by 43 percentage points since 2011. This makes the area far more reliant on cars than the national average.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own multiple cars, with 38% having two and nearly 20% having three. This high level of ownership is reflected in the fact that Boyanup has far fewer car-less homes than the typical Australian suburb.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Boyanup, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 1 vehicle (29%) and 3 vehicles (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most workers drive to work, with 70.5% acting as the driver. Working from home is far less common here than across Australia, at only 5.2%, while just 1.2% of the workforce uses public transport.
5.2% ▲ —
Lower than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 5.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.2% ▲ —
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 1.2%
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.
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 Boyanup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521006/boyanup/topic/transport