1.9% ▼ -69.8%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 1.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Paringa · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Paringa
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Public transport use is among the highest for similar areas in Paringa, where 11% of workers now use it to get to work. This shift is a major change from a decade ago, alongside a very high rate of car ownership across the community.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every home in Paringa has a car, with only 1.9% of households lacking a vehicle. This is well below the South Australian figure of 7.2%, and the number of car-free homes has fallen by 4.3 points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Paringa, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 1 vehicle (30%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
While 68.3% of workers drive, 11% use public transport—a figure well above the national average of 3.1% and a sharp rise from 0% in 2011. Conversely, working from home is far less common here than across Australia, at just 3.5%.
3.5% ▼ -10.8%
Lower than 84% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 3.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
11.0% ▲ —
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 11.0%
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 Paringa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL415033/paringa/topic/transport