Duck Ponds · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Duck Ponds

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

Every single home in Duck Ponds has at least one motor vehicle, making cars essential for daily life. With no public transport available and a huge reliance on driving, residents depend almost entirely on their own wheels to get around.

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📍 Duck Ponds, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high here, with 23.7% of homes owning four or more vehicles. This puts the area well below the state and national figures for homes without a car, which sit at 7.2% and 7.4% respectively.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 5.7%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Duck Ponds splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (30%) and 2 vehicles (30%), with 3 vehicles at 24%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most workers drive, with 55.6% as the driver, while 24.4% walk to work. About 11.1% work from home, which is a little above the South Australian figure but well below the national rate of 21.0%.

11.1% ▲ +61.1%

Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 6.9%
  • 2016: 7.1%
  • 2021: 11.1%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

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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 Duck Ponds, Car (driver) is the majority at 61%; Walked is next at 27%.

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 lack of service is far below the South Australian average of 4.96 stops per 1,000 people.

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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 Duck Ponds [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40375/duck-ponds/topic/transport