4.3% ▼ -16.5%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.2%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Golden Grove · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Golden Grove
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost 40% of households in Golden Grove have two motor vehicles, making cars the dominant way to get around. While the area is well-served by a high number of bus stops, it remains heavily reliant on driving for daily trips. The typical commute to the city takes about 26 minutes by car.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few homes here go without a car, with only 4.3% having no motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households have one or two cars, while about 21% own three or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Golden Grove splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
About 65% of workers drive themselves to work, and 9.4% work from home, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%. Public transport use for commuting is 5.5%, which is a little above both the state and national rates.
9.4% ▲ +260.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 9.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
5.5% ▼ -25.8%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.3%
- 2016: 7.6%
- 2021: 5.5%
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.
Golden Grove has a high number of public transport stops and routes, with 7.19 stops per 1,000 people, well above the South Australian average. However, all services are buses, and the 86-minute trip to the city is among the slowest for similar areas.
74
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
7.19
Higher than 86% 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).
1,560.1
Higher than 89% 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).
27
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
19,423
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
86
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport + walking time, in minutes, from the area to its capital city centre on a weekday morning (R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network). Blank where no scheduled service connects the area to the city.
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
A 26-minute drive to the city is much lower than in most similar areas. For those using public transport, the walk to the nearest stop takes about 14 minutes, which is around the middle for its level.
14
Higher 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.
26
Lower than 78% 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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- 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 Golden Grove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40516/golden-grove/topic/transport