3.7% ▼ -22.1%
Lower than 71% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 3.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Yorke Peninsula · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Yorke Peninsula
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people go without a car in Yorke Peninsula than in the rest of the country. Only 3.7% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average. This heavy reliance on private transport is reflected in the way residents travel for work and the limited nature of local public services.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own multiple cars, with 39.2% having two and 13.7% having three. The proportion of homes without a vehicle has fallen to 3.7%, which is well below the South Australian figure of 7.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Yorke Peninsula splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people use public transport to get to work, at just 0.4%. Meanwhile, 14.7% of the workforce works from home, which is well above the state average of 9.6%.
14.7% ▲ +2.0%
Higher than 64% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -16.0%
Lower than 70% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 0.4%
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 there are 48 public transport stops, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is 13.6, which is far below the South Australian figure of 1,317. All available public transport routes are buses.
48
Higher than 53% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.14
Higher than 61% 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).
13.6
Lower than 67% 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).
7
Higher than 50% 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.
Getting to the city takes a long time from this region, with a typical drive time of 102 minutes, which is higher than most areas.
102
Higher than 73% 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).
More for Yorke Peninsula
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Yorke Peninsula [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA48830/yorke-peninsula/topic/transport