1.7% ▼ -33.3%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 1.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Auburn · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Auburn
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly half of all homes in Auburn have two motor vehicles, making car ownership a central part of life here. The area relies heavily on private transport, with almost no one using public transit to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few households lack a car, with only 1.7% having no motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure of 7.4% and the South Australian figure of 7.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Auburn, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 1 vehicle (28%) and 3 vehicles (17%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 63.3% of residents, while 14.5% work from home. No one in the area uses public transport to commute, which is well below the state and national averages.
14.5% ▲ +31.4%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.0%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.0%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is limited to buses, with only one stop and five routes serving the area. This results in 18 weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure far below the South Australian average.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.50
Higher than 63% 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).
18.0
Higher than 59% 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).
5
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
It takes about 76 minutes to drive from Auburn to the city. For those using public transit, the typical walk to the nearest stop is 9 minutes.
9
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
76
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality 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 Auburn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40051/auburn/topic/transport