Clayton Bay · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Clayton Bay

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

Not a single home in Clayton Bay is without a motor vehicle. This total reliance on cars defines daily life here, as there is no public transport available for residents to use.

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📍 Clayton Bay, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Almost every home has at least one car, with 38.4% owning two and 16.6% owning three. This means the share of homes with no vehicle is 0.0%, which is well below both the state and national figures.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.4%
  • 2016: 1.8%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Clayton Bay splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 17%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 70.1% of residents. While 12.8% work from home—a figure well above the South Australian average—nobody in the area uses public transport to commute.

12.8% ▲ +241.5%

Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.8%
  • 2016: 3.7%
  • 2021: 12.8%

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: 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 Clayton Bay, Car (driver) is the majority at 80%; Worked at home is next at 15%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport is non-existent here, with zero stops and routes. This puts the area far below the South Australian average for both the number of stops and weekly departures per 1,000 people.

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

It takes typically 62 minutes to drive to the city, a travel time that is around the middle for similar areas.

62

Lower than 55% 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).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Clayton Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40265/clayton-bay/topic/transport