41.9% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 48.6%
- 2021: 41.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Pipalyatjara · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Pipalyatjara
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car ownership and travel patterns in Pipalyatjara have remained stable over the last decade, but the area lacks basic transport infrastructure. About 42% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is far more than the 7% seen across Australia.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Nearly 42% of households do not own a car, a figure far above the state and national averages. For those who do have vehicles, 45.2% of homes own just one car, while 22.6% have two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Pipalyatjara splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (41%) and No vehicle (38%), with 2 vehicles at 21%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking is the most common way to get to work at 38.6%, followed by driving or riding in a car. No one in the area works from home or uses public transport to commute.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
There are no public transport stops or routes in Pipalyatjara. This leaves the area far below the South Australian figure for transit access.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Pipalyatjara [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41164/pipalyatjara/topic/transport