Rockleigh · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Rockleigh

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

Not a single home in Rockleigh is without a motor vehicle, making it a place where car ownership is far more common than in the rest of the state. This heavy reliance on cars is reflected in the total absence of public transport options for residents.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Nearly half of all homes have two vehicles, and about 14% own four or more. This high level of ownership means 0% of households lack a car, which is well below the South Australian figure of 7.2%.

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.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Rockleigh, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 3 vehicles (24%) and 1 vehicle (17%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most people drive to work, with 58.4% as the driver and 8.8% as a passenger. While 12.4% work from home—a little above the state average—no one in the area uses public transport to get to their job.

12.4%

Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 7.9%
  • 2021: 12.4%

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

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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 Rockleigh, Car (driver) is the majority at 71%; Worked at home is next at 15%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure far below the South Australian average of 1,317.

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

It takes about 75 minutes to drive from Rockleigh to the city, which is around the middle for similar areas.

75

Higher than 53% 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 Rockleigh [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41267/rockleigh/topic/transport