Port Victoria · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Port Victoria

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

Almost every household in Port Victoria relies on a private car to get around. With a typical drive to the city taking 125 minutes, residents depend heavily on their own vehicles for daily travel and work.

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📍 Port Victoria, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

No homes in the area are without a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. About 41% of households have two vehicles, while 39% have just one.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.2%
  • 2016: 2.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Port Victoria splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (41%) and 1 vehicle (39%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Nobody uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the South Australian average. Instead, 60.7% of workers drive and 13.1% work from home, a figure well above the state average.

13.1% ▲ +57.4%

Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 8.3%
  • 2016: 3.7%
  • 2021: 13.1%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 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 Port Victoria, Car (driver) is the majority at 73%; Worked at home is next at 16%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is very limited, consisting of a single bus route and one stop. With only 10 weekly departures per 1,000 people, access is far below the state figure.

2.52

Higher than 67% 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).

10.1

Higher than 58% 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.

Daily travel is challenging, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 45 minutes. This is much higher than most similar areas.

45

Higher than 77% 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.

125

Higher than 83% 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 Port Victoria [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41213/port-victoria/topic/transport