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Transport & Vehicles in Victor Harbor

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Fewer households without cars than most similar areas define the transport landscape in Victor Harbor. While car reliance is high, an increasing number of residents are shifting their professional lives indoors, with those working from home rising to 10%. This reflects a community where private vehicles are essential for almost every household.

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📍 Victor Harbor, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Nearly half of all homes have one vehicle and 33.7% have two. The proportion of households with no motor vehicle has fallen sharply to 5.6%, a figure a little below the South Australian and national averages.

Homes with no motor vehicle

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5.6% ▼ -58.6%

Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Victor Harbor, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 48%, followed by 2 vehicles (34%) and 3 vehicles (9%).

1 vehicle 47.8% 2 vehicles 33.7% 3 vehicles 9.0% No vehicle 5.6% 4 or more 3.8%

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Only 0.2% of workers use public transport, which is well below the state figure of 4.1%. Most people drive to work, though the share of those working from home rose by 8.3 percentage points since 2011 to reach 10%.

People working from home

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10.0% ▲ +466.0%

Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

Commuting by public transport

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0.2% ▼ -65.5%

Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.

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.

How people get to work

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In Victor Harbor, Car (driver) is the majority at 77%; Worked at home is next at 12%.

Car (driver) 63.9% Worked at home 10.0% Car (passenger) 5.0% Walked 3.6% Bicycle 0.6% Bus 0.1% Train 0.1%

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 Victor Harbor [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL413006/victor-harbor/topic/transport