12.5% ▼ -12.8%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2021: 12.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Whyalla · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Whyalla
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Daily life in Whyalla relies heavily on cars, though a surprising number of households lack one. More than one in eight homes have no motor vehicle, which is well above the national figure of 7.4%.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Twelve point five per cent of homes here have no motor vehicle, a figure that is much higher than most areas, though it has fallen since 2011. Most households own either one or two cars, with 38.9% and 31.5% respectively.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Whyalla, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 39%, followed by 2 vehicles (31%) and No vehicle (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very rare here; only 1.9% do so, which is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%. Instead, most people drive to work, with 68.3% as the main driver and 2.0% using the bus.
1.9% ▲ +63.7%
Lower than 92% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2021: 1.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.0% ▲ +8.2%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 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/ucl/UCL412004/whyalla/topic/transport