5.0% ▼ -53.0%
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.6%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Hopetoun · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Hopetoun
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 15% of workers in Hopetoun use public transport to get to work, a figure far above the national average. This reliance on shared transit is a striking feature of the area, where most other residents depend on private cars for their daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Half of all homes in Hopetoun have one motor vehicle, while 35.7% have two. The proportion of households without a car has fallen to 5% since 2011, which is about the same as the Western Australian figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Hopetoun, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 47%, followed by 2 vehicles (35%) and 3 vehicles (8%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use for commuting has risen sharply since 2011 to 14.9%, far exceeding the 3.1% national figure. Meanwhile, only 5.1% of people work from home, which is far below the Australian average of 21%.
5.1% ▲ +104.9%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
14.9% ▲ +1083.6%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 14.9%
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 Hopetoun [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521025/hopetoun/topic/transport