2.9% ▼ -79.4%
Lower than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.0%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 2.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Penola · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Penola
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people rely on public transport or work from home in Penola compared to the rest of the country. Only 0.6% of workers use public transport, and just 6.1% work from home, reflecting a strong reliance on private cars for daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are essential here, with only 2.9% of homes lacking a motor vehicle—a figure well below the South Australian average of 7.2%. Most households own at least two cars, with 41.1% having exactly two and another 17.7% owning three or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Penola splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (41%) and 1 vehicle (39%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, with 71.5% of people commuting as a driver. While working from home rose slightly to 6.1% since 2011, this remains far below the national figure of 21%.
6.1% ▲ +54.4%
Lower than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▲ —
Higher than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Penola [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL415034/penola/topic/transport