0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Boston · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Boston
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Not a single home in Boston (L) lacks a motor vehicle, making it an area where car ownership is universal. This total reliance on private transport is reflected in the way people travel, with almost everyone driving to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have multiple cars, with 48.9% owning two and 20.9% owning three. The proportion of homes without a vehicle has fallen 4.8 points since 2011 to reach 0.0%, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Boston, 2 vehicles is the majority at 50%; 3 vehicles is next at 21%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 67% of residents, while 9.7% work from home. Use of public transport is non-existent at 0.0%, a figure well below the South Australian average of 4.1%.
9.7% ▲ +289.6%
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 9.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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.
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 Boston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL422010/boston/topic/transport