Point Sturt · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Point Sturt

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

Every single home in Point Sturt has at least one motor vehicle, making private cars essential for daily life. The area is almost entirely dependent on driving, with no residents using public transport or working from home.

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📍 Point Sturt, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Cars are common here, with 15.4% of homes owning four or more vehicles. This helps explain why 0.0% of households are without a car, a figure well below the South Australian average 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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Point Sturt splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (32%) and 2 vehicles (29%), with 3 vehicles at 26%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 37.5% of people commuting as the driver. No one in the area uses public transport or works from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 19.2%
  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Point Sturt, Car (driver) is the majority at 55%; Car (passenger) is next at 27%.

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

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting to the city takes about 66 minutes by car, which is around the middle for similar areas.

66

Lower than 52% 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 Sturt [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41174/point-sturt/topic/transport