6.7% ▼ -1.4%
Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.8%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 6.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tailem Bend · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Tailem Bend
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost 69% of working residents in Tailem Bend drive themselves to work. This heavy reliance on cars is a key feature of the town's transport landscape, where very few people use public transport or work from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own at least one car, with 42% having one vehicle and 33.2% having two. About 6.7% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that has barely changed since 2011 and is about the same as the state and national figures.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Tailem Bend, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 42%, followed by 2 vehicles (33%) and 3 vehicles (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is uncommon here, with only 5.2% of people doing so—far below the national figure of 21%. Public transport use is also very low at 0.6%, which is well below the South Australian average and has fallen since 2011.
5.2% ▲ +45.0%
Lower than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 5.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -63.3%
Higher than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 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 Tailem Bend [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL415040/tailem-bend/topic/transport