Echunga · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Echunga

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

Very few people in Echunga (L) get around without a car, making it much more dependent on vehicles than most similar areas. Only 1.4% of homes lack a motor vehicle, a figure that has dropped since 2011.

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📍 Echunga, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Almost every home has at least one car, and 72.6% of households own three or more vehicles. This is well below the South Australian rate of 7.2% for homes with no vehicle.

1.4% ▼ -65.9%

Lower than 75% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 4.0%
  • 2016: 1.5%
  • 2021: 1.4%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Echunga, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (23%) and 3 vehicles (21%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 66.3% of residents, while 9.6% work from home. No one used public transport to commute in 2021, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%.

9.6% ▲ +134.3%

Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 4.1%
  • 2016: 4.5%
  • 2021: 9.6%

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: 1.7%
  • 2016: 1.6%
  • 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 Echunga, Car (driver) is the majority at 81%; Worked at home 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 Echunga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL421010/echunga/topic/transport