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.
Kangaroo Flat · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Kangaroo Flat
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every household in Kangaroo Flat owns a car, making it much more vehicle-reliant than typical South Australian areas. With no public transport stops or routes available, residents depend almost entirely on private travel to get around. This is a car-dependent area where the typical resident relies on a vehicle for nearly every journey.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Vehicle ownership is very high here, with 63% of homes owning three or more cars. This means the proportion of homes without a motor vehicle is 0.0%, which is well below the South Australian figure of 7.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Kangaroo Flat splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (32%) and 3 vehicles (32%), with 4 or more at 24%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Cars are the primary way to get to work, with 72.8% of people driving or riding as a passenger. Very few people work from home at 7.3%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%, and no one uses public transport to commute.
7.3% —
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.7%
- 2021: 7.3%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is non-existent in the area, with zero stops, routes, or weekly departures. This leaves the area far below the state average of 4.96 stops per 1,000 people.
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).
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).
0
Lower than 99% 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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
It takes about 38 minutes to drive to the city, which is lower than most similar areas. However, the 25-minute walk to the nearest stop is higher than in most other places.
25
Higher than 63% 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.
38
Lower 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)).
- 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 Kangaroo Flat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40657/kangaroo-flat/topic/transport