6.0% ▼ -22.7%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Kadina · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Kadina
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car reliance has remained the dominant way to move around Kadina, where almost no one uses public transport to get to work. The town depends heavily on private vehicles, with 70.2% of workers driving themselves to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have at least one car, with 36.3% owning two. About 6% of households have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than in most other similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Kadina splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 10%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one in the area commutes using public transport, and only 6.3% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
6.3% ▲ +5.0%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 6.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 2016: 0.3%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is limited to bus services, and the 12.2 weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the South Australian average of 1,317.
3
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.02
Higher than 61% 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).
12.2
Higher than 59% 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).
4
Higher than 82% 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.
Reaching the city is a long trip taking about 100 minutes. It is also much harder to access transit than in most areas, with a typical 48-minute walk to the nearest stop.
48
Higher than 78% 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.
100
Higher than 69% 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 Kadina [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40646/kadina/topic/transport