17.9% —
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 17.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Beaufort · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Beaufort
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 18% of homes in Beaufort have no motor vehicle, a figure far above the South Australian and national rates. This is one of the highest proportions for an area of this type. Most residents rely on cars to get around, as there are no public transport options available locally.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
While 57.1% of homes have one car, about 18% have none, which is far above the 7.2% seen across South Australia. Another 42.8% of households own two or three vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Beaufort, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 48%, followed by 2 vehicles (18%) and 3 vehicles (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one in Beaufort works from home or uses public transport, placing the area far below the national figures. Instead, almost 80% of workers drive themselves to work, and 11.8% travel as passengers in a car.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% —
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.
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. This means weekly departures are far below the South Australian figure of 1,317 per 1,000 people.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
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).
0.0
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).
0
Lower than 99% 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 70 minutes to drive from Beaufort to the city, which is around the middle for similar areas.
70
Higher than 50% 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).
More for Beaufort
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Beaufort [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40084/beaufort/topic/transport