4.1% ▼ -18.7%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Encounter Bay · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Encounter Bay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people use public transport in Encounter Bay than in the rest of the state. Most residents rely on their own cars to get around, with only 4.1% of homes having no motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Over half of homes have one vehicle, and 34.2% have two. The proportion of households without a car is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Encounter Bay, 1 vehicle is the majority at 51%; 2 vehicles is next at 34%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, used by 65.5% of people. While 10.1% work from home, no one in the area commutes by public transport, which is well below the South Australian figure.
10.1% ▲ +85.3%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 10.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 0.2%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
The area has 6 bus routes and 10 stops, which is more than most similar areas. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state average.
10
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.89
Higher than 65% 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).
30.2
Higher than 61% 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.
A typical trip to the city takes 62 minutes by car. It takes about 10 minutes to walk to the nearest public transport stop.
10
Lower than 54% 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.
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 Encounter Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40410/encounter-bay/topic/transport