6.4% ▼ -15.8%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.6%
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 6.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Gawler · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Gawler
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people used public transport to get to work in Gawler in 2021 compared to 2011. While most homes now own at least one car, the area remains heavily dependent on vehicles for daily travel. Only 6.6% of workers now do their jobs from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 36% of Gawler households have two motor vehicles, while 6.4% of homes have none. This last figure is higher than in most similar areas, though it has fallen slightly since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Gawler splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, with 71.5% of people acting as the driver. Working from home rose to 6.6% since 2011, but this is still far below the national figure of 21%.
6.6% ▲ +126.4%
Lower than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.7% ▼ -47.1%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 1.7%
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 Gawler [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL412001/gawler/topic/transport