6.5% ▼ -0.4%
Higher than 61% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 6.5%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 6.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Light · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Light
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over 71% of people in Light drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. Most homes here rely on multiple vehicles, while very few residents work from home compared to the rest of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Typical homes in Light usually have one or two cars, with 36.9% owning two and 35.2% owning one. About 6.5% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that has barely changed since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Light splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is rare here, with only 6.4% doing so, which is far below the national figure of 21%. Very few people use public transport for their commute, and this figure fell from 3.3% in 2011 to 1.8% in 2021.
6.4% ▲ +59.1%
Lower than 84% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 6.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.8% ▼ -44.4%
Lower than 60% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 0.2%
- 2021: 1.8%
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.
Light has 5.62 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is a little above the South Australian average. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state figure, with buses making up 79% of the available services.
203
Lower than 66% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.62
Higher than 71% of state electorate areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
551.2
Lower than 68% of state electorate 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).
35
Higher than 69% of state electorate 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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Light [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40028/light/topic/transport