3.4% ▲ +29.6%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 3.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Coonalpyn · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Coonalpyn
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more people work from home in Coonalpyn than in the rest of South Australia. This rural area relies heavily on private cars, though it has a surprisingly high number of public transport stops for its size.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few households go without a car, with only 3.4% of homes lacking a motor vehicle. This is well below the South Australian figure of 7.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Coonalpyn splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (35%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 4 or more at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
About 20.5% of people work from home, which is far above the state average of 9.6%. Most others drive to work, while 14.1% walk.
20.5% ▼ -24.5%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.2%
- 2016: 24.5%
- 2021: 20.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.9% ▲ +187.8%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 1.9%
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.
Coonalpyn has 14.29 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the state average of 4.96. However, weekly departures are much lower than the state figure, and all services are buses.
5
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
14.29
Higher than 89% 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).
131.4
Higher than 72% 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).
6
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.
The drive time to the city is 98 minutes, which is higher than most areas. It takes about 12 minutes to walk to the nearest transport stop.
12
Lower 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.
98
Higher than 68% 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 Coonalpyn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40304/coonalpyn/topic/transport