0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.3%
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Moonta Mines · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Moonta Mines
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 70% of workers in Moonta Mines drive themselves to work, highlighting a heavy reliance on cars. The area is almost entirely dependent on private vehicles, with no one using public transport to commute and virtually no homes without a car.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in the area has at least one motor vehicle, a figure well below the South Australian and national rates. Many households own several cars, with 38.6% of homes having three or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Moonta Mines splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (33%) and 2 vehicles (31%), with 3 vehicles at 21%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Getting to work is almost exclusively done by car, and only 4.8% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure. No one in the area uses public transport for their daily commute.
4.8% ▼ -21.5%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 4.8%
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 the area. This means the number of weekly departures and stops per 1,000 people is far below the state average.
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.
Residents face a long commute to the city, with a typical drive time of 108 minutes. The walk to the nearest transport stop takes about 18 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.
18
Higher than 57% 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.
108
Higher than 74% 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 Moonta Mines [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40916/moonta-mines/topic/transport