0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Houghton · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Houghton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly two thirds of people in Houghton (L) drive themselves to work, reflecting a strong reliance on cars for daily travel. The area is almost entirely dependent on private vehicles, with no homes without a motor vehicle reported in the latest census.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 81.9% of homes owning two or more vehicles. This is well below the national and state figures for homes with no car, which sit at 7.4% and 7.2% respectively.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Houghton, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 3 vehicles (24%) and 4 or more (24%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has risen to 12.3% since 2011, which is a little above the South Australian figure. Meanwhile, public transport use is much higher than in similar areas, though it remains well below the state average at just 1.0%.
12.3% ▲ +112.4%
Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.8%
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 12.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.0% ▼ -55.7%
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 1.0%
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).
More for Houghton
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Houghton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL421016/houghton/topic/transport