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.
Clare · Urban Centre
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.
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.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Clare splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
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.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -75.1%
Higher than 58% 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.
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