Point Pass · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Point Pass

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

Every single home in Point Pass has at least one motor vehicle, reflecting a total reliance on cars for daily life. This is a stark contrast to the national figure, where around 7% of households have no vehicle at all.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is high here, with 18.4% of homes owning four or more vehicles. Most households have either one or two cars, each making up 34.2% of the total.

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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Point Pass splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (34%) and 2 vehicles (34%), with 4 or more at 18%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one here uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure. Instead, 63% drive themselves and 19.6% work from home, a rate well above the South Australian average.

19.6%

Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 9.3%
  • 2021: 19.6%

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 Point Pass, Car (driver) is the majority at 71%; Worked at home is next at 22%.

Public transport access

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

While Point Pass has two bus routes and more stops per person than the state average, the actual service is very limited. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the South Australian figure.

16.26

Higher than 90% 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).

162.6

Higher than 72% 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.

The typical drive to the city takes 83 minutes. For those using public transport, it takes about 12 minutes to walk to the nearest stop.

12

Lower than 51% 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.

83

Higher than 58% 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 Point Pass [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41171/point-pass/topic/transport