4.8% ▼ -12.2%
Lower than 55% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 5.5%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Coorong · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Coorong
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A massive 106-minute drive to the city highlights how isolated Coorong is compared to most areas. This distance shapes a region where cars are essential for almost every home and public transport is rarely used for work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have multiple cars, with 34.9% owning two and 15.1% owning three. Only 4.8% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the South Australian figure of 7.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Coorong splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (35%) and 1 vehicle (33%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people use public transport for work, at just 0.3%, which is well below the state's 4.1%. Instead, 16.6% of residents work from home, a figure that is well above the South Australian average of 9.6%.
16.6% ▼ -4.8%
Higher than 71% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 17.5%
- 2016: 15.2%
- 2021: 16.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -65.3%
Lower than 77% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.3%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
While Coorong has 6.04 stops per 1,000 people—a little above the state average—actual service is sparse. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the South Australian figure, and all available services are buses.
33
Lower than 51% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
6.04
Higher than 83% of council (lga) areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
52.7
Lower than 53% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled weekly public-transport departures from stops in the area, per 1,000 residents — how often transit actually runs, not just whether a stop exists (GTFS schedules for a representative week; population from the 2021 Census).
10
Higher than 57% of council (lga) areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
The typical drive time to the city is 106 minutes, which is much higher than most other areas.
106
Higher than 76% of council (lga) areas.
Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
- Public transport timetables (GTFS) — State & territory transport agencies, 2026 (CC BY 4.0 (WA: custom PTA licence)).
- Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Coorong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA47800/coorong/topic/transport