Finniss · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Finniss

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

Over half of working residents in Finniss drive themselves to work. This is a car-dependent area where every single home has at least one motor vehicle. While most people rely on cars, 22% of the workforce now works from home, which is far above the South Australian figure.

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📍 Finniss, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every household in Finniss owns a motor vehicle, which is well below the national and state rates of homes without one. Many homes have multiple cars, with 31.1% having two and 28.7% having three.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

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

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Finniss splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (31%) and 3 vehicles (29%), with 1 vehicle at 21%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one here commutes using public transport, which is well below the national average. Instead, 22% of people work from home, a figure that is far above the 9.6% seen across South Australia.

22.0% ▲ +25.2%

Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 17.6%
  • 2016: 17.5%
  • 2021: 22.0%

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 Finniss, Car (driver) is the majority at 69%; Worked at home is next at 27%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is completely absent in Finniss, with no stops or routes available. This lack of access is far below the South Australian average for stops and weekly departures 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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The typical drive from Finniss to the city takes 54 minutes, a travel time that is around the middle for similar areas.

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Lower than 59% 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 Finniss [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40437/finniss/topic/transport