0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mount Osmond · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Mount Osmond
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A total lack of car-free households makes Mount Osmond a place where private vehicles are essential for daily life. While the area is very close to the city by car, it relies almost entirely on buses for public transport and has a high number of people working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home here owns at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the national and state figures for car-free households. Most families have two cars, and 14% of homes have four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Mount Osmond, 2 vehicles is the majority at 54%; 3 vehicles is next at 17%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
More than 60% of workers drive themselves to work, though 18.4% work from home, a figure well above the South Australian average. Only 2.1% of people use public transport to get to work.
18.4% ▲ +130.1%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.0%
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 18.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.1% ▼ -44.1%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 2.1%
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.
Bus services are the only option here, with weekly departures per person being a little above the state figure. However, the area is poorly connected, as it takes 77 minutes to reach the city by transit.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.16
Higher than 66% 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).
1,635.8
Higher than 90% 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).
11
Higher than 86% 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).
77
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport + walking time, in minutes, from the area to its capital city centre on a weekday morning (R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network). Blank where no scheduled service connects the area to the city.
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
The drive time to the city is among the lowest for similar areas at just 11 minutes. Conversely, it is a long walk to the nearest stop, taking 25 minutes, which is higher than most areas.
25
Higher than 63% 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.
11
Lower than 94% 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 Osmond [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40959/mount-osmond/topic/transport