11.1% ▲ +12.8%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Port Augusta · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Port Augusta
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than one in ten households in Port Augusta do not have a motor vehicle, a figure well above the national average. While car travel remains the primary way people get around, the area has seen a rise in both public transport use and the number of homes without a car since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 11.1% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas and well above the South Australian figure of 7.2%. For those who do own cars, the most common setup is a single vehicle, found in 38.4% of households.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Port Augusta, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 38%, followed by 2 vehicles (33%) and 3 vehicles (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very rare here, with only 2% of people doing so, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%. Most people drive themselves to work (69.1%), though public transport use has risen to 1.7% since 2011.
2.0% ▼ -8.6%
Lower than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 2.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.7% ▲ +258.2%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 0.2%
- 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 Port Augusta [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL413003/port-augusta/topic/transport