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.
Purnong · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Purnong
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Private cars are essential for every single household in Purnong, where no homes are without a motor vehicle. This reliance on cars is clear given the long travel times and limited services available in the area.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every home in Purnong has at least one car, which is well below the 7.4% of Australian households that have none. Many residents have multiple vehicles, with 19% of homes owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Purnong splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (29%) and 2 vehicles (29%), with 3 vehicles at 24%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
The most common how people get to work is Car (driver) at 92%, ahead of Car (passenger) (0%).
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
While there are more public transport stops per person here than in most similar areas, the number of weekly departures is far below the South Australian figure. All available services are bus routes.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
36.36
Higher 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).
36.4
Higher than 61% 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).
1
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to the city is a long trip, taking typically 98 minutes. This distance is higher than most areas, and a walk to the nearest transport stop takes about 25 minutes.
25
Higher than 63% 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.
98
Higher than 68% 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 Purnong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41227/purnong/topic/transport