8.4% ▲ +85.7%
Higher than 83% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.5%
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 8.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mallala · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Mallala
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Public transport use has surged in Mallala since 2011, with 13.1% of workers now using it to get to work. While most residents still rely on cars, the area has seen a notable shift in how people move and a rise in homes without any motor vehicles.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 8.4% of homes here have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas and has risen since 2011. For those who do own cars, 34.7% of households have two vehicles, while 30.5% have just one.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Mallala splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 1 vehicle (31%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
The 13.1% of people commuting by public transport is well above the national figure of 3.1%. Very few people work from home here, at just 2.8%, which is far below the Australian average of 21%.
2.8% ▲ +40.2%
Lower than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 2.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
13.1% ▲ —
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 13.1%
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 Mallala [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL421023/mallala/topic/transport