0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mount Barker Springs · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Mount Barker Springs
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Every single home in Mount Barker Springs has at least one motor vehicle, making it far more reliant on cars than the rest of South Australia. This dependence is clear across the board, as there is no public transport and a huge majority of residents use their own cars to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own multiple cars, with 70.5% having either two or three vehicles. This explains why 0% of homes are without a motor vehicle, a figure well below the South Australian average of 7.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Mount Barker Springs splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 3 vehicles (36%), with 1 vehicle at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 59.4% of the workforce. While 16.8% of people work from home, which is well above the state figure, no one here commutes using public transport.
16.8% ▲ +56.8%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.7%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 16.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 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.
Public transport is non-existent in this area, with zero stops and zero routes. This means there are no weekly departures, a result that 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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
The drive time to the city is 34 minutes, which is lower than most similar areas. However, the walk to the nearest public transport stop takes 67 minutes, which is much higher than most areas.
67
Higher than 89% 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.
34
Lower than 71% 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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- 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 Mount Barker Springs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40934/mount-barker-springs/topic/transport