1.8% ▼ -73.3%
Lower than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.8%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 1.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wilmington · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Wilmington
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer households in Wilmington are without a car than they were in 2011, with only 1.8% of homes now lacking a vehicle. This makes the area much more reliant on private transport than the state or national average. Most residents depend on cars to get around, while public transport is not used at all.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every home in Wilmington has a motor vehicle, which is well below the South Australian figure of 7.2%. Nearly 50% of households own three or more vehicles, and the share of homes without a car fell by 4.9 points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Wilmington splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (36%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 63.9% of people as the driver and 6.7% as a passenger. While 7.2% of people now work from home—an increase of 7.2 points since 2011—no one uses public transport to commute.
7.2% ▲ —
Lower than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 7.2%
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 Wilmington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL422059/wilmington/topic/transport