3.8% ▼ -38.1%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.1%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bordertown · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Bordertown
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Bordertown than in the rest of Australia, where the national figure is 21%. This reliance on physical workplaces is mirrored by a high dependence on cars for daily travel. Most households here own multiple vehicles to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common, with 39.9% of homes owning two vehicles and another 21.7% owning three or more. Only 3.8% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the South Australian figure of 7.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Bordertown, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (35%) and 3 vehicles (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 71.6% of people as the driver and 9.4% as a passenger. Only 4.6% of people work from home, which is far below the Australian average.
4.6% ▲ +19.8%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -14.2%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.3%
- 2016: 0.2%
- 2021: 0.2%
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.
Bordertown has 10 public transport stops and 9 routes, which is larger than about 82% of similar areas. However, the 15.2 weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state figure of 1,317.
10
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.23
Higher than 70% 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).
15.2
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).
9
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 16 minutes to walk to the nearest public transport stop, which is around the middle for areas of this level.
16
Higher than 54% 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 Bordertown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40142/bordertown/topic/transport