Barabba · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Barabba

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

Almost every single home in Barabba owns a motor vehicle, making it much more car-dependent than the state average. With no public transport stops in the area, residents rely heavily on driving for their daily needs.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Not one home in the area lacks a motor vehicle, which is well below the South Australian figure of 7.2%. Most households are well-equipped, with 30.2% owning four or more cars and another 30.2% owning two.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Barabba splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (35%) and 4 or more (35%), with 3 vehicles at 22%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one uses public transport to get to work, a figure well below the national average of 3.1%. Instead, 64.6% of workers drive, while 17.7% work from home, which is well above the South Australian figure of 9.6%.

17.7%

Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 18.8%
  • 2021: 17.7%

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

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Barabba, Car (driver) is the majority at 72%; Worked at home is next at 20%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport routes or stops in Barabba. This means weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the state figure of 1,317.

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Lower than 99% 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).

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Lower than 99% 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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The typical drive time to the city is 62 minutes, which is around the middle for its level.

62

Lower than 55% 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 Barabba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40071/barabba/topic/transport