Arno Bay · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Arno Bay

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

Almost every single household in Arno Bay now owns a motor vehicle, reflecting a total reliance on cars for daily life. This dependence is clear in the data, where no one in the area uses public transport to get to work.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home in Arno Bay has at least one vehicle, which is well below the national and state figures for households without a car. More than half of all homes have two or more vehicles, with 46.3% owning exactly two.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 6.8%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Arno Bay, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 48%, followed by 1 vehicle (26%) and 3 vehicles (15%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one here uses public transport to get to work, and 60.6% of workers drive themselves. While 11.7% work from home—slightly above the South Australian figure—this is well below the national rate of 21%.

11.7% ▲ +297.1%

Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.9%
  • 2016: 11.0%
  • 2021: 11.7%

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

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 1.9%
  • 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 Arno Bay, Car (driver) is the majority at 74%; Worked at home is next at 14%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is very limited, with only one bus route and one stop serving the area. While this is more than some similar areas, the 31.8 weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state average.

3.18

Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.

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

31.8

Higher than 61% of suburb / locality 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Arno Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40042/arno-bay/topic/transport