Hindmarsh Tiers · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Hindmarsh Tiers

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

Almost every home in Hindmarsh Tiers relies on a car to get around. This is a place where most people avoid long commutes by working from home, with 30.4% of the workforce doing so.

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📍 Hindmarsh Tiers, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high here, with 71.5% of households owning two or more vehicles. In contrast, not a single home in the area is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Hindmarsh Tiers, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 3 vehicles (28%) and 1 vehicle (23%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is far more common here than in the rest of South Australia, where only 9.6% do so. No one uses public transport to get to work, and the most common way to commute is by driving.

30.4%

Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 29.7%
  • 2021: 30.4%

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 Hindmarsh Tiers, Car (driver) is the majority at 60%; Worked at home is next at 40%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is virtually non-existent in the area, with no routes or stops available. This lack of access is far below the South Australian average.

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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.

It takes about 50 minutes to drive to the city, which is a shorter trip than in most similar areas.

50

Lower than 62% 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 Hindmarsh Tiers [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40599/hindmarsh-tiers/topic/transport