8.3% ▲ +39.9%
Higher than 76% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 8.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Taylor · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Taylor
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A much higher share of homes in Taylor have no motor vehicle compared to most similar areas. While 8.3% of households lack a car, the area remains heavily reliant on driving, with over 71% of workers commuting by car as the driver.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have one or two cars, but the 8.3% of households without a vehicle is a little above the South Australian figure of 7.2%. This lack of vehicle access has risen by 2.4 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Taylor splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here than across Australia, with only 5.7% of people doing so. Public transport use for commuting is also a little below the national figure at 2.0%.
5.7% ▲ +94.7%
Lower than 88% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.0% ▼ -8.8%
Lower than 56% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 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.
The area has 202 public transport stops, though weekly departures per 1,000 people are well below the South Australian figure. Bus services are the primary option, making up 92% of the available transport modes.
202
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.
4.82
Higher than 55% 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).
898.0
Lower than 54% 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).
23
Lower than 60% 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Taylor [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40042/taylor/topic/transport