0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Moorlands · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Moorlands
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Two or more cars are found in every single home in Moorlands, making private vehicles essential for life here. While the area is sparsely populated, a huge 30.3% of people work from home, which is far above the national figure of 21%. This reliance on home-based work and private cars defines how people move in this rural landscape.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every household in Moorlands has at least one motor vehicle, a figure well below the 7.4% of Australian homes without one. Most families have several cars, with 33.3% of homes owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Moorlands splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (35%) and 4 or more (30%), with 1 vehicle at 17%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here, with 30.3% of the workforce doing so, which is far above the South Australian figure of 9.6%. No one uses public transport to get to work, and 33.3% of workers drive themselves.
30.3% —
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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 31.25 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the state average, though there are only two stops in total. These are bus services, but with only 156.3 weekly departures per 1,000 people, the frequency is far below the state figure.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
31.25
Higher than 98% 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).
156.3
Higher than 72% 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).
1
Higher than 71% 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.
It takes 77 minutes to drive to the city, which is around the middle for similar areas. Getting to the nearest transport stop is difficult for many, as a 30-minute walk is higher than in most other areas.
30
Higher than 67% 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.
77
Higher than 55% 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 Moorlands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40918/moorlands/topic/transport