2.9% ▼ -62.6%
Lower than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.7%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 2.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
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Transport & Vehicles in Mount Pleasant
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
About 66% of workers in Mount Pleasant drive themselves to work, making the car the primary way people get around. This is a highly mobile area where very few households go without a vehicle. While most people commute by car, a small number now use public transport.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 2.9% of homes in Mount Pleasant have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well below the South Australian and national rates. This is a significant drop from 2011, with 36% of households now owning two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Mount Pleasant splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 17%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is rare here, with only 5.6% of people doing so, which is far below the national figure of 21%. However, public transport use has risen to 2.8% since 2011, placing it among the highest for similar areas.
5.6% ▲ +76.4%
Lower than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.8% ▲ —
Higher than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 2.8%
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 Mount Pleasant [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL421027/mount-pleasant/topic/transport