1.7% ▼ -85.4%
Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.3%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 1.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Ocean Beach · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Ocean Beach
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more people now own cars in Ocean Beach (L) than they did in 2011. Only 1.7% of homes have no motor vehicle, a huge drop from the 11.3% seen a decade ago. This shift has made the area much more dependent on private transport for daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
The typical home here has two vehicles, and very few households get by without a car. At 1.7%, the share of homes with no motor vehicle is well below the Western Australian figure of 5.0%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Ocean Beach, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (28%) and 3 vehicles (21%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%. While 10.7% of people work from home—a rise of 8 points since 2011—the vast majority of workers drive themselves to their jobs.
10.7% ▲ +303.4%
Higher than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Ocean Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521039/ocean-beach/topic/transport