Matta Flat · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Matta Flat

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

Zero homes without a car makes Matta Flat a place where private transport is essential. Because there are no public transport options and no one works from home, every single resident relies on a vehicle to get to work.

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📍 Matta Flat, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every household here owns at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the South Australian figure of 7.2%. About 35% of homes have one car, while another 35% have two.

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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Matta Flat splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (32%) and 2 vehicles (32%), with 3 vehicles at 26%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Getting to work is done entirely by car, with 80.6% of people driving and 19.4% travelling as passengers. This means 0% of the workforce uses public transport or works from home.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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 Matta Flat, Car (driver) is the majority at 81%; Car (passenger) is next at 19%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport routes or stops in the area. This lack of service is far below the South Australian average of 4.96 stops 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.

The drive to the city is long, taking 95 minutes, which is higher than most similar areas. Residents face a 16-minute walk to reach the nearest transport stop.

16

Higher than 54% 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.

95

Higher than 66% 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 Matta Flat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40842/matta-flat/topic/transport