Rocky Gully · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Rocky Gully

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

Very few people in Rocky Gully rely on public transport compared to similar areas. The community is almost entirely dependent on cars, with no homes lacking a motor vehicle and no residents using public transit to get to work.

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📍 Rocky Gully, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is high here, with 26.8% of homes having four or more vehicles. This means no homes in the area are without a motor vehicle, a figure well below the state and national rates.

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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Rocky Gully splits fairly evenly between 4 or more (31%) and 3 vehicles (29%), with 2 vehicles at 23%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to travel, with 69.7% of workers being the driver and 12.1% passengers. Far fewer people work from home here than in the rest of Australia, at just 4.5%.

4.5%

Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 10.0%
  • 2021: 4.5%

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 Rocky Gully, Car (driver) is the majority at 81%; Car (passenger) is next at 14%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent in Rocky Gully, with zero stops and no scheduled routes. This is far below the South Australian average for both stops and weekly departures per 1,000 people.

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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.

Getting around on foot is difficult, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 43 minutes. This is much higher than most areas, and the typical drive to the city takes 55 minutes.

43

Higher than 75% 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.

55

Lower than 59% 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 Rocky Gully [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41269/rocky-gully/topic/transport