7.7% ▼ -20.6%
Higher than 86% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 9.8%
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 7.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Adelaide · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Adelaide
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people use public transport to get to work in Adelaide than in most similar areas. While 5% of workers use these services, the city has seen a rise in remote work and a slight drop in the number of car-free homes since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 7.7% of Adelaide homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas. Most households own one or two vehicles, with 37.4% having one and 36.9% having two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Adelaide splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way people get to work, with 63.3% as the driver. While 9.7% work from home—a figure that rose 6.6 points since 2011—this is still far below the national figure of 21%.
9.7% ▲ +213.9%
Higher than 60% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 9.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
5.0% ▼ -27.0%
Higher than 99% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 6.8%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 5.0%
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.
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 Adelaide [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/4001/adelaide/topic/transport