Sandilands · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Sandilands

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

Half of all workers in Sandilands work from home, a figure far above the national rate. This highlights a community where most people live and work in the same place, relying heavily on private cars for any travel. The area is very remote, with a typical drive time to the city taking 133 minutes.

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📍 Sandilands, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every household in Sandilands has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the state and national figures for homes without cars. Most homes are well-equipped, with 37.5% owning four or more vehicles.

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 Sandilands, the largest group is 4 or more at 44%, followed by 2 vehicles (33%) and 1 vehicle (11%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is incredibly common here at 50%, far above the South Australian average of 9.6%. Because of this, and because 23.1% of workers simply walk to their jobs, no one in the area uses public transport to get to work.

50.0%

Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 57.4%
  • 2021: 50.0%

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

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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 Sandilands, Worked at home is the majority at 53%; Walked is next at 24%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in Sandilands. This leaves the area far below the state average for transit access, with zero 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).

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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 to the city is a long trip, with a drive time of 133 minutes, which is much higher than most other areas.

133

Higher than 86% 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 Sandilands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41303/sandilands/topic/transport