12.3% ▼ -13.0%
Higher than 86% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 14.2%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 12.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Whyalla · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Whyalla
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Roughly 12.3% of households in Whyalla do not have a motor vehicle, a figure well above the national average. While the area has a high number of public transport stops relative to the population, very few people actually work from home or use transit for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
More than one in ten homes here have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most other areas. However, this has fallen by 1.8 percentage points since 2011, and the typical household now has either one or two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Whyalla, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 39%, followed by 2 vehicles (32%) and No vehicle (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people work from home here at 1.9%, a figure far below the Australian average of 21%. Most residents rely on cars, with 68.4% driving themselves to work and only 2.0% using public transport.
1.9% ▲ +65.6%
Lower than 97% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 1.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.0% ▲ +7.5%
Higher than 66% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 2.0%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Whyalla has 9.08 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the South Australian figure. Despite having 193 stops and 11 bus routes, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state average.
193
Higher than 72% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
9.08
Higher than 96% of council (lga) areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
621.6
Higher than 74% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled weekly public-transport departures from stops in the area, per 1,000 residents — how often transit actually runs, not just whether a stop exists (GTFS schedules for a representative week; population from the 2021 Census).
11
Higher than 58% of council (lga) areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
- Public transport timetables (GTFS) — State & territory transport agencies, 2026 (CC BY 4.0 (WA: custom PTA licence)).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Whyalla [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA48540/whyalla/topic/transport