1.2% ▼ -47.2%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 1.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Hindmarsh Island · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Hindmarsh Island
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than 60% of working residents in Hindmarsh Island drive themselves to work. This is a highly car-dependent area where almost every home has at least one vehicle, and very few people rely on public transport.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every household owns a car, with only 1.2% having no motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure of 7.4%, while the most common arrangement is two vehicles per home.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Hindmarsh Island splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (41%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, and 11.6% work from home, which is a little above the state figure but well below the 21% national average. Very few people use public transport to commute, at just 0.5%.
11.6% ▲ +42.8%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 8.5%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▼ -74.3%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.5%
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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means access to services is far below the South Australian average.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
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).
0.0
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).
0
Lower than 99% 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.
The typical drive time to the city is 65 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.
65
Lower than 53% 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).
More for Hindmarsh Island
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Hindmarsh Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40598/hindmarsh-island/topic/transport