3.8% ▼ -44.0%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.8%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Cowell · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Cowell
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Reliance on private cars is the norm in Cowell, where very few households get by without a vehicle. While a small number of people use public transport to get to work, the area has very few overall transit options compared to the state average.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 3.8% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well below the South Australian and national rates. Most households own multiple cars, with 36.3% having two and 17.3% having three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Cowell splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (32%), with 3 vehicles at 18%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 58.2% of residents. Very few people work from home here, at just 5.0%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
5.0% ▼ -32.4%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.3%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.6% ▼ -55.9%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 2.6%
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.
Public transport is limited to a single bus route. This results in just 0.89 stops per 1,000 people and weekly departures that are far below the state average.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.89
Higher than 61% 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).
8.9
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).
1
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Cowell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40319/cowell/topic/transport