Clare · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Clare

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

A car is essential for daily life in Clare, where 68.6% of workers drive to their jobs. Very few residents rely on public transport or work from home, making private vehicles the dominant way to get around this town.

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📍 Clare, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households have at least one car, with 40.2% owning two vehicles. Only 6% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the South Australian figure of 7.2% and has fallen slightly since 2011.

6.0% ▼ -12.8%

Higher than 68% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 6.9%
  • 2016: 5.8%
  • 2021: 6.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Clare splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is rare here, with only 5.2% doing so—far below the national figure of 21%. Public transport use is also very low at 0.2%, which is well below the state average of 4.1%.

5.2% ▲ +4.9%

Lower than 70% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 5.0%
  • 2016: 4.3%
  • 2021: 5.2%

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

0.2% ▼ -75.1%

Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.8%
  • 2016: 0.3%
  • 2021: 0.2%

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 Clare, Car (driver) is the majority at 81%; Walked 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 Clare [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL415009/clare/topic/transport