27.3% —
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 28.6%
- 2021: 27.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
Lake Plains · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Lake Plains
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over half of the workforce in Lake Plains drive themselves to work. The area has a very high proportion of people working from home, with 27.3% of residents doing so—a figure far above the South Australian average.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
The most common motor vehicles per home is 1 vehicle at 47%, ahead of 2 vehicles (26%).
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Lake Plains, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 43%, followed by 2 vehicles (24%) and 4 or more (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most workers drive, and no one uses public transport to commute. This lack of transit use is consistent with the 27.3% of people who work from home, which is well above the national figure of 21%.
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 here, with no stops or routes available. This puts Lake Plains far below South Australia's average for both stops and weekly departures 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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
It takes about 74 minutes to drive to the city, which is around the middle for similar areas.
74
Higher 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 Lake Plains
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Lake Plains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40743/lake-plains/topic/transport