11.2% ▼ -16.9%
Higher than 98% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 13.5%
- 2016: 11.2%
- 2021: 11.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Port Pirie · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Port Pirie
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More households lack a car in Port Pirie than in most similar areas. While 11.2% of homes have no motor vehicle, very few people use public transport or work from home to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 11.2% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well above the South Australian figure of 7.2%. This is among the highest rates for this level, though the number has fallen by 2.3 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Port Pirie, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 40%, followed by 2 vehicles (32%) and 3 vehicles (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Relying on a car is the norm here, with 72.6% of workers driving. Very few people work from home at 2.6%—far below the national figure of 21%—and only 0.3% use public transport.
2.6% ▲ +39.4%
Lower than 97% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 2.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -45.0%
Lower than 74% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Pirie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/4006/port-pirie/topic/transport