3.4% ▲ +286.4%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.9%
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 3.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Beachport · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Beachport
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A heavy reliance on cars has remained a constant for Beachport, where almost every home owns a vehicle. With only 3.4% of households lacking a motor vehicle, this is well below the state and national figures.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least two cars, with 43.2% owning exactly two. This high rate of ownership means the share of households without a vehicle is much lower than the 7.2% seen across South Australia.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Beachport, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (29%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 56.7% of residents, while 11.8% work from home. No one in Beachport uses public transport for their daily commute, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%.
11.8% ▼ -32.2%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.5%
- 2016: 9.2%
- 2021: 11.8%
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: 1.1%
- 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 options are very limited, with only one bus route and one stop serving the area. This results in just 8.1 weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is 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.
1.34
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).
8.1
Higher than 58% 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).
1
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Beachport [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40082/beachport/topic/transport