4.8% ▼ -46.4%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 7.6%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mount Barker · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Mount Barker
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people work from home in Mount Barker than in most similar areas, though this remains far below the national figure. The town relies heavily on cars, with nearly 65% of workers driving themselves to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost 42% of households keep two vehicles, and only 4.8% of homes have no motor vehicle. This last figure is a little below the South Australian average and has fallen by 4.2 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Mount Barker, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (34%) and 3 vehicles (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has risen to 10.4%, which is higher than most similar areas. While the number of people using public transport for work is among the highest for this level at 2.8%, it is still a little below the state average.
10.4% ▲ +331.0%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 10.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.8% ▲ +412.6%
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 2.8%
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 Mount Barker [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL412002/mount-barker/topic/transport