8.3% ▲ +163.3%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 8.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lock · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Lock
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Working from home has become a significant part of life in Lock, where nearly 20% of the workforce now does so. This reflects a shift in how people get to work in a region where public transport is completely unavailable. Most households rely on their own cars to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 8.3% of homes in Lock have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas and a little above the South Australian figure of 7.2%. For those with cars, the most common setup is two vehicles per home, at 36.9%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Lock splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 1 vehicle (33%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one in Lock uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%. Instead, 45.5% of people drive themselves, while 19.8% work from home, a figure far above the state average of 9.6%.
19.8% ▼ -44.7%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.9%
- 2016: 25.7%
- 2021: 19.8%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
There are no public transport routes or stops in Lock. This means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure that is far below the South Australian average of 1,317.
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).
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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Lock [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40774/lock/topic/transport