Nuriootpa · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Nuriootpa

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

Reliance on the car is very high in Nuriootpa, where 72.3% of workers drive themselves to work. Public transport is rarely used and working from home is far less common here than across the country. This makes the private vehicle essential for most people's daily routines.

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📍 Nuriootpa, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households in Nuriootpa have at least one car, with 38.4% owning one and 35.7% owning two. Only 4.9% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that is a little below the South Australian and national averages and has barely changed since 2016.

4.9%

Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.

  • 2016: 4.3%
  • 2021: 4.9%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Nuriootpa splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Very few people use public transport to get to work (0.3%), and only 5.9% work from home, which is far below the national figure. While the number of people working from home rose 1.2 percentage points since 2016, it remains well below the state average.

5.9%

Lower than 65% of urban centre areas.

  • 2016: 4.7%
  • 2021: 5.9%

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

0.3%

Higher than 61% of urban centre areas.

  • 2016: 0.8%
  • 2021: 0.3%

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 Nuriootpa, Car (driver) is the majority at 84%; Worked at home is next at 7%.

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 Nuriootpa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL414004/nuriootpa/topic/transport