Mount Schank · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Mount Schank

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

A total reliance on private cars defines transport in Mount Schank, where no one uses public transport to get to work. Every single household owns at least one motor vehicle, making the area far more car-dependent than the South Australian and national averages.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home in Mount Schank has a motor vehicle, which is well below the state and national figures for carless households. Most residents own multiple cars, with 85.6% of homes having two or more vehicles.

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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.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Mount Schank, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 3 vehicles (21%) and 4 or more (21%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 57.9% of the workforce, while 17.9% work from home. This remote-work rate is well above the South Australian average, though it remains well below the national figure.

17.9% ▲ +18.2%

Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 15.2%
  • 2016: 24.6%
  • 2021: 17.9%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

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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.

How people get to work

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In Mount Schank, Car (driver) is the majority at 74%; Worked at home is next at 23%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in Mount Schank. This leaves the area with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure far below the state average.

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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).

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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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Mount Schank [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40961/mount-schank/topic/transport