10.6% ▼ -12.1%
Higher than 96% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 10.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Port Augusta · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Port Augusta
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 70% of workers in Port Augusta drive themselves to work, highlighting a strong reliance on cars. While most homes own multiple vehicles, over 10% of households have no motor vehicle at all, which is well above the national figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Ten-point-six per cent of homes have no motor vehicle, a rate well above the South Australian and national figures. However, this has fallen slightly since 2011, with 37.3% of households now owning one vehicle and 33.5% owning two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Port Augusta splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (34%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very rare here, with only 2.1% of people doing so, which is far below the national figure. Most people rely on cars, while public transport use is a little below the state and national levels at 1.6%.
2.1% ▲ +31.8%
Lower than 99% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 2.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.6% ▲ +41.7%
Higher than 82% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 1.1%
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 1.6%
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 Port Augusta [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/4004/port-augusta/topic/transport