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Transport & Vehicles in Price

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

Every single home in Price has a motor vehicle, reflecting a total reliance on cars for daily life. This makes it an outlier compared to the rest of the state and the nation, where some households do not own a car.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Over half of households own two vehicles, and 6.3% have four or more. With 0.0% of homes lacking a car, this is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 7.3%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Price, 2 vehicles is the majority at 54%; 1 vehicle is next at 40%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Nearly 68% of workers drive themselves to work and no one uses public transport. This reflects a much lower rate of working from home (5.1%) compared to 21% across Australia.

5.1% ▼ -85.1%

Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 34.1%
  • 2016: 5.5%
  • 2021: 5.1%

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 Price, Car (driver) is the majority at 80%; Car (passenger) is next at 8%.

Public transport access

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

While the area has 9.76 stops per 1,000 people—far above the South Australian figure—there are only two bus routes. This means weekly departures are far below the state average.

9.76

Higher than 87% 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).

39.0

Higher than 62% 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.

It takes 89 minutes to drive to the city, which is longer than in most similar areas. A typical walk to the nearest transport stop takes about 19 minutes.

19

Higher than 58% 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.

89

Higher than 62% 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 Price [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41218/price/topic/transport