5731, SA · Postcode

Transport & Vehicles in 5731, SA

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

A shift in how people move has seen working from home rise to 19.8% in postcode 5731 since 2011. This area now has very few people using public transport for work, while more homes have no car than in most other parts of the country.

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📍 5731, SA, Postcode

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

About 10.7% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well above the national average and has risen 4.4 percentage points since 2011. Other homes typically have one or two cars, though 17.9% own four or more.

10.7% ▲ +69.8%

Higher than 87% of postcode areas.

  • 2011: 6.3%
  • 2016: 3.4%
  • 2021: 10.7%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In 5731, SA, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 34%, followed by 2 vehicles (27%) and 4 or more (18%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Nobody in the area used public transport to get to work in 2021, a drop of 12 percentage points since 2011. Instead, most people drive or walk, while nearly one in five work from home, which is far above the South Australian figure.

19.8% ▲ +244.7%

Higher than 62% of postcode areas.

  • 2011: 5.8%
  • 2016: 5.3%
  • 2021: 19.8%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of postcode areas.

  • 2011: 11.9%
  • 2016: 2.5%
  • 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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5731, SA splits fairly evenly between Car (driver) (39%) and Walked (36%), with Worked at home at 21%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area, leaving it with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people. This is far below the South Australian average and is lower than about 79% of similar areas.

0.00

Lower than 99% of postcode areas.

Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).

0.0

Lower than 99% of postcode 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).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in 5731, SA [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA5731/5731-sa/topic/transport