12.4% ▼ -13.1%
Higher than 99% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 12.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Whyalla · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Whyalla
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost 69% of workers in Whyalla drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. While car use is high, a striking 12.4% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well above the national figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Homes without a car are much more common here than in most other areas, though this has fallen slightly since 2011. Most households have one or two vehicles, with 38.7% owning just one.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Whyalla, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 39%, followed by 2 vehicles (32%) and No vehicle (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here than across Australia, with only 1.9% of people doing so. Public transport use is also low at 2%, which is a little below the state and national figures.
1.9% ▲ +70.3%
Lower than 99% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 1.1%
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 1.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.0% ▲ +3.8%
Higher than 87% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 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.
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 Whyalla [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/4008/whyalla/topic/transport