Light Pass · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Light Pass

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

Over half of the working people in Light Pass drive themselves to work, which is a common trend in this car-dependent area. Every single home here owns at least one motor vehicle, making it far more reliant on cars than the state or national average.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is universal here, with 0.0% of homes lacking a vehicle. This is well below the South Australian figure of 7.2% and the national rate of 7.4%.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.9%
  • 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 Light Pass, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 34%, followed by 1 vehicle (22%) and 3 vehicles (22%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common for 16.9% of residents, which is well above the South Australian average. In contrast, no one uses public transport to get to work, a figure well below both state and national levels.

16.9% ▼ -13.8%

Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 19.6%
  • 2016: 20.7%
  • 2021: 16.9%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 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 Light Pass, Car (driver) is the majority at 62%; Worked at home is next at 18%.

Public transport access

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

Light Pass has 19.53 stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the state average of 4.96. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the South Australian figure.

19.53

Higher than 92% 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).

97.7

Higher than 68% 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 54 minutes to drive to the city. For those using public transport, the walk to the nearest stop takes around 17 minutes.

17

Higher than 56% 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.

54

Lower than 59% 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 Light Pass [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40761/light-pass/topic/transport