8.4% ▼ -28.9%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 8.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Port Augusta West · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Port Augusta West
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A massive gap exists between the available services and actual use in Port Augusta West. While the area has a high number of transport stops, very few people use them or work from home. Reliance on private cars is the dominant story here.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 8.4% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas and slightly above the state and national figures. Most households own either one or two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Port Augusta West splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (36%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very rare here at just 2.0%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%. Only 0.8% of people use public transport to get to work, while 72.0% drive themselves.
2.0% ▲ +22.8%
Lower than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 2.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.8% ▼ -27.8%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.1%
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.8%
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.
Port Augusta West has 45 bus stops and 9 routes, which are among the highest numbers for similar areas. However, the 423.1 weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the South Australian figure.
45
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
11.12
Higher than 88% 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).
423.1
Higher than 77% 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).
9
Higher than 86% 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 Port Augusta West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41190/port-augusta-west/topic/transport