Kingscote · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Kingscote

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

About 63% of working residents in Kingscote drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. This reliance on vehicles is reflected in home ownership, where most households own at least one car, though a small number of homes remain without any motor vehicle.

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📍 Kingscote, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Eight point six percent of homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas and a little above the national figure of 7.4%. This is a slight drop from 2011, when 9.9% of households were without a car.

8.6% ▼ -13.9%

Higher than 84% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 9.9%
  • 2016: 9.8%
  • 2021: 8.6%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Kingscote, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 43%, followed by 2 vehicles (35%) and 3 vehicles (9%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one in Kingscote uses public transport to get to work, a figure well below the South Australian average of 4.1%. While 6.1% of people work from home, this is far below the national figure of 21%.

6.1% ▲ +29.9%

Lower than 63% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 4.7%
  • 2016: 4.7%
  • 2021: 6.1%

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

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.4%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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 Kingscote, Car (driver) is the majority at 74%; Walked is next at 12%.

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 Kingscote [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL415017/kingscote/topic/transport