Mount Magnificent · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Mount Magnificent

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

More people here own multiple cars than in most similar areas, making Mount Magnificent a place heavily reliant on private transport. No home in the area is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the state and national figures.

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📍 Mount Magnificent, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is high, with 41.7% of homes having two vehicles and 12.5% owning four or more. This explains why 0.0% of households lack a car, a figure well below the 7.4% national average.

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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In Mount Magnificent, 2 vehicles is the majority at 53%; 3 vehicles is next at 32%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most residents drive to work, with 46.9% as the driver and 12.5% as a passenger. While 12.5% work from home, this is well below the Australian figure of 21.0%.

12.5% —

Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 12.5%

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 Mount Magnificent, Car (driver) is the majority at 65%; Car (passenger) is next at 17%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent here, with zero stops or routes serving the area. This puts the local access far below the South Australian average.

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting into the city takes some time, with a typical drive of 51 minutes.

51

Lower than 61% 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 Mount Magnificent [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40954/mount-magnificent/topic/transport