88.5% ▲ +1072.1%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 77.8%
- 2021: 88.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Rottnest Island · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Rottnest Island
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 89% of homes in Rottnest Island have no motor vehicle, a figure far above the national average. This makes it one of the areas with the fewest cars in the country, which is reflected in how people get around for work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost 89% of households do not own a car, which is a massive increase from just 7.5% in 2011. Most of the remaining homes have two vehicles, while only about 6% have just one.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Rottnest Island, No vehicle is the majority at 85%; 2 vehicles is next at 9%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking and cycling are the primary ways to get to work, accounting for 45.2% and 23.8% of trips respectively. Very few people work from home at 2.4%, a figure far below the national average.
2.4% ▼ -52.4%
Lower than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.2% ▲ +5.8%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 3.2%
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 Rottnest Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522057/rottnest-island/topic/transport