6.7% ▲ +111.4%
Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 6.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Coolgardie · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Coolgardie
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost 70% of workers in Coolgardie drive themselves to work, highlighting a strong reliance on cars. This makes private vehicles essential for most residents, though the number of homes without any motor vehicle has risen since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have at least one car, with 31% owning two vehicles. However, 6.7% of households have no motor vehicle, which is a little above the Western Australian figure and a rise of 3.5 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Coolgardie splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (32%) and 1 vehicle (31%), with 3 vehicles at 21%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people work from home, at just 1.4%, which is far below the national figure. Public transport use is also low at 1.4%, though this is still much higher than in most similar areas.
1.4% ▼ -79.6%
Lower than 94% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.8%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 1.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.4% ▼ -44.6%
Higher than 82% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 1.4%
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 Coolgardie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521014/coolgardie/topic/transport