Grace Plains · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Grace Plains

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

Far more people work from home in Grace Plains than in the rest of the country, with 34.2% of the workforce doing so. This highlights a strong reliance on private transport and home-based work in a place where public transit is non-existent.

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📍 Grace Plains, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home in Grace Plains has a motor vehicle, which is well below the state and national figures. Most households are well equipped, with 34.6% owning three vehicles and 11.5% owning four or more.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Grace Plains, 3 vehicles is the majority at 53%; 2 vehicles is next at 29%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Since there is no public transport use, 63.2% of workers drive to work. This is consistent with the high number of people working from home, which is far above the national figure of 21.0%.

34.2%

Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 36.4%
  • 2021: 34.2%

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

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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 Grace Plains, Car (driver) is the majority at 65%; Worked at home is next at 35%.

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 means weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the South Australian figure of 1,317.

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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 drive time to the city is 45 minutes, which is lower than most similar areas.

45

Lower than 65% 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 Grace Plains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40528/grace-plains/topic/transport