Booleroo Centre · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Booleroo Centre

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

Over half of the workforce in Booleroo Centre drive themselves to work, making cars the primary way people get around. While the area is largely dependent on private vehicles, it has a notably high rate of people working from home compared to the state average.

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📍 Booleroo Centre, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have at least one car, with 30.9% owning two and 18.6% owning four or more. Only 4.1% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the figures for South Australia and Australia.

4.1% ▼ -18.3%

Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 5.0%
  • 2016: 4.3%
  • 2021: 4.1%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Booleroo Centre, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 33%, followed by 1 vehicle (26%) and 4 or more (20%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common here, with 21.4% of people doing so, a figure far above the South Australian average. In contrast, no one uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national and state levels.

21.4% ▲ +26.2%

Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 17.0%
  • 2016: 21.8%
  • 2021: 21.4%

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: 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 Booleroo Centre, Car (driver) is the majority at 60%; Worked at home is next at 24%.

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. This means there are only 4.1 weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the South Australian figure of 1,317.

2.07

Higher than 66% 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).

4.1

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The typical walk to the nearest public transport stop takes about 14 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.

14

Higher than 51% 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.

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 Booleroo Centre [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40138/booleroo-centre/topic/transport