7.6% ▼ -37.8%
Higher than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.2%
- 2016: 10.6%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Port Lincoln · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Port Lincoln
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer homes without cars is the biggest change in Port Lincoln since 2011. Most people here rely heavily on their own vehicles to get around. This dependence is clear as only 0.4% of workers use public transport to commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
While 7.6% of homes have no motor vehicle—which is much higher than most areas—this figure fell 4.6 percentage points since 2011. Most households now own one or two cars, with 37.9% having two and 37.4% having one.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Port Lincoln splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, with 71.8% of people acting as the driver. Working from home is far less common here than across Australia, with only 4.1% doing so, though this has risen 2.5 percentage points since 2011.
4.1% ▲ +165.1%
Lower than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -61.2%
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.1%
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Lincoln [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL413004/port-lincoln/topic/transport