Mount Torrens · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Mount Torrens

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

Reliance on cars is very high in Mount Torrens, where no one uses public transport to get to work. Almost every home owns at least one vehicle, and the typical household has two or more.

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📍 Mount Torrens, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Very few homes lack a car, with only 3.6% having no vehicle—a figure well below the South Australian average. Most households are well-equipped, as 41.1% have two vehicles and 21.4% have three.

3.6% ▼ -49.6%

Lower than 53% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 7.1%
  • 2016: 4.0%
  • 2021: 3.6%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Mount Torrens, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 3 vehicles (22%) and 1 vehicle (18%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Cars are the primary way to travel, with 65.8% of workers driving and 0.0% using public transport. While 10.8% of people now work from home, this is far below the national figure.

10.8% ▲ —

Higher than 66% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 10.4%
  • 2021: 10.8%

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.

How people get to work

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In Mount Torrens, Car (driver) is the majority at 81%; Worked at home is next at 13%.

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 Torrens [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL422032/mount-torrens/topic/transport