Pallamana · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Pallamana

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

Every single home in Pallamana has at least one motor vehicle, making the car essential for daily life. This is a heavily vehicle-reliant area where the vast majority of households own two or more cars to get around.

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📍 Pallamana, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Ownership is very high here, with 68.2% of homes having three or more vehicles. Not a single home lacks a motor vehicle, which is well below the South Australian figure of 7.2%.

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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Pallamana splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (31%) and 3 vehicles (31%), with 4 or more at 27%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most people travel by car, as 57.6% of workers drive themselves to work and no one uses public transport. Around 12.1% work from home, which is a little above the state figure but well below the national rate of 21.0%.

12.1%

Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 14.6%
  • 2021: 12.1%

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 Pallamana, Car (driver) is the majority at 83%; Worked at home is next at 17%.

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 there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure far below the South Australian average of 1,317.

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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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting around is almost entirely dependent on cars, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 77 minutes. The drive time to the city is 49 minutes, which is lower than in most similar areas.

77

Higher than 95% 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.

49

Lower than 62% 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 Pallamana [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41091/pallamana/topic/transport