0.7% ▼ -89.3%
Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 0.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mount Compass · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Mount Compass
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car ownership has surged in Mount Compass, with the share of homes without a vehicle plummeting from 7% in 2011 to just 0.7%. This makes the area much more dependent on cars than other parts of the state. Most households now own multiple vehicles to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
A huge 50.1% of homes have two cars, and another 29% have three or more. Only 0.7% of households live without a motor vehicle, a figure well below the South Australian average of 7.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Mount Compass, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 49%, followed by 1 vehicle (22%) and 3 vehicles (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 69% of people as the main driver. No one here uses public transport, and the 7.1% who work from home is far below the national figure of 21%.
7.1% ▲ +221.0%
Lower than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 7.1%
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: 0.1%
- 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.
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 Mount Compass [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL415031/mount-compass/topic/transport