Looma · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Looma

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Almost half of the workers in Looma walk to their jobs, reflecting a local transport landscape where many residents do not own cars. This is a sparsely populated area where 58.5% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that has risen sharply since 2011.

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📍 Looma, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

More than half of all homes in Looma have no motor vehicle, which is far above the Western Australian figure of 5%. This is among the highest rates for this level, and the proportion of car-less homes rose by 48 points since 2011.

58.5% ▲ +460.7%

Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 10.4%
  • 2016: 2.8%
  • 2021: 58.5%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Looma, No vehicle is the majority at 55%; 1 vehicle is next at 32%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Walking is the most common way to get to work here at 46.8%, while 8.5% use public transport, which is well above the national figure. No one in the area works from home, a rate far below the Australian average of 21%.

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Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 5.1%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

8.5% ▲ —

Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 8.5%

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.

How people get to work

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In Looma, the largest group is Walked at 42%, followed by Car (driver) (37%) and Car (passenger) (13%).

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 Looma [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522043/looma/topic/transport