Carpenter Rocks · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Carpenter Rocks

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

Every single home in Carpenter Rocks has at least one motor vehicle. This makes it an area where residents rely almost entirely on cars, and about 21% of the workforce avoids a commute by working from home.

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📍 Carpenter Rocks, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is universal here, which is well below the 7.4% of Australian homes that have no vehicle. Most households are well-equipped, with 65.7% owning either two or three vehicles.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 4.5%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Carpenter Rocks splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (34%) and 3 vehicles (31%), with 1 vehicle at 23%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common for 21.4% of residents, a figure far above the South Australian average of 9.6%. Very few people use other methods, as no one commutes by public transport.

21.4% ▲ +157.1%

Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 8.3%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 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 Carpenter Rocks, the largest group is Car (driver) at 45%, followed by Worked at home (31%) and Walked (14%).

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 the number of weekly departures is far below the South Australian figure.

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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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Carpenter Rocks [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40228/carpenter-rocks/topic/transport