Ravensthorpe · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Ravensthorpe

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

Over half of the workforce in Ravensthorpe drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. While most homes now own multiple vehicles, very few people work from home compared to the rest of the country.

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📍 Ravensthorpe, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Only 4.9% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen sharply by 24 points since 2011. This is about the same as the Western Australian figure and a little below the national average.

4.9% ▼ -83.2%

Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 29.3%
  • 2016: 2.9%
  • 2021: 4.9%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Ravensthorpe splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (34%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is rare here at 2.8%, which is far below the national figure. While 13.6% of people walk to work, those using public transport make up 1.7%, a figure that is much higher than in most similar areas.

2.8% ▲ —

Lower than 88% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 6.4%
  • 2021: 2.8%

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

1.7% ▼ -49.4%

Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 3.4%
  • 2016: 3.2%
  • 2021: 1.7%

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 Ravensthorpe, Car (driver) is the majority at 74%; Walked is next at 18%.

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 Ravensthorpe [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522056/ravensthorpe/topic/transport