0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Prospect Hill · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Prospect Hill
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over half of working residents in Prospect Hill drive themselves to work, highlighting a heavy reliance on cars in this area. This is reflected in the fact that every single home in the suburb owns at least one motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are essential here, with no homes without a vehicle, which is well below the 7.4% national figure. Nearly half of all households own three or more vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Prospect Hill splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (35%) and 3 vehicles (33%), with 4 or more at 20%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the South Australian average of 4.1%. Instead, 15.1% of workers work from home, a rate well above the state figure.
15.1% ▲ +3.6%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 15.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is virtually non-existent, with zero routes or stops in the area. This is far below South Australia's average of nearly five stops per 1,000 people.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting around is dominated by the car, as it takes a long 81 minutes to walk to the nearest stop. The drive time to the city is 44 minutes.
81
Higher than 97% 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.
44
Lower than 65% 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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).
More for Prospect Hill
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Prospect Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41221/prospect-hill/topic/transport