1.5% ▲ +11.4%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 1.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mount Torrens · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Mount Torrens
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer homes lack a car in Mount Torrens than across South Australia, with only 1.5% of households without a vehicle. This highlights a strong reliance on private transport in a rural setting where the typical home has two or more vehicles.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households here are well equipped for travel, with 79.3% owning two or more cars. Only 1.5% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure well below the 7.2% seen across South Australia.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Mount Torrens, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 35%, followed by 3 vehicles (22%) and 4 or more (21%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Not a single resident uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%. Instead, 64.9% drive themselves, while 13% work from home—a rate well above the state average but well below the Australian figure.
13.0% ▲ +28.0%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.8%
- 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.
While Mount Torrens has 6 public transport routes and 4 stops, these are exclusively bus services. Despite having more stops per person than most similar areas, the number of weekly departures is far below the state figure.
4
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.21
Higher than 78% 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).
65.1
Higher than 65% 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).
6
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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to the city takes about 42 minutes by car. However, the area is less walkable than most, with a typical 23-minute walk to the nearest transport stop.
23
Higher than 61% 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.
42
Lower than 66% 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 Torrens [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40964/mount-torrens/topic/transport