Hawker · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Hawker

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

A huge gap exists between Hawker and the rest of the country when it comes to how people get around. Not a single home in the area is without a motor vehicle, and far fewer people work from home compared to the national figure.

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📍 Hawker, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every household in Hawker has at least one motor vehicle, a figure that is well below the South Australian and national rates for carless homes. Over 50% of homes own three or more vehicles.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 10.2%
  • 2016: 7.4%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Hawker splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work for 50.4% of people, though 21% walk. Very few people work from home at 4.2%, which is far below the national figure, and no one uses public transport.

4.2% ▼ -60.2%

Lower than 78% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 10.6%
  • 2016: 2.8%
  • 2021: 4.2%

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: 2.1%
  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Hawker, Car (driver) is the majority at 65%; Walked is next at 27%.

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 Hawker [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL422021/hawker/topic/transport