Murtho · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Murtho

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

Transport habits in Murtho have remained steady, with a heavy reliance on private cars. Every single home in the area owns at least one motor vehicle, making it far more car-dependent than the state and national figures.

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📍 Murtho, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high here, as 0% of homes lack a motor vehicle. Most households own two or three vehicles, with 37.7% having two and 26.1% having three.

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.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Murtho, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 3 vehicles (28%) and 1 vehicle (20%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the most common way to get to work for 56.9% of residents, though 15.5% walk. Working from home is far less common here than across Australia, at just 8.6%.

8.6% ▼ -55.7%

Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 19.5%
  • 2016: 16.3%
  • 2021: 8.6%

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

4.3% ▲ —

Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 4.3%

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 Murtho, Car (driver) is the majority at 67%; Walked is next at 18%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means access is far below the South Australian 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).

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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Murtho [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40992/murtho/topic/transport