Magdala · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Magdala

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

Nearly 60% of working residents in Magdala drive themselves to work, highlighting a heavy reliance on cars. This is an area where every single home owns at least one motor vehicle, and most have two or more.

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📍 Magdala, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

No home in Magdala is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the state and national figures. About 36% of households have two vehicles, while a quarter of homes own four or more.

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.

Motor vehicles per home

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Magdala splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (33%) and 1 vehicle (30%), with 4 or more at 23%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Nobody here commutes by public transport, which is well below the South Australian and national averages. Working from home is more common than in the state average at 12.8%, though this is well below the national figure.

12.8%

Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 12.8%

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.

How people get to work

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In Magdala, Car (driver) is the majority at 76%; Worked at home is next at 16%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent here, with zero stops and routes. This leaves the area far below the state average for both the number of stops and weekly departures per 1,000 people.

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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).

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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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

It takes 46 minutes to drive to the city, a time that is lower than most similar areas. However, walking to the nearest transport stop takes 84 minutes, which is among the highest times for this level.

84

Higher than 99% 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.

46

Lower than 64% 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 Magdala [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40804/magdala/topic/transport