Sherwood · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Sherwood

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

Far more people work from home in Sherwood than in the rest of the country, with 42.9% of the workforce doing so. This is a car-dependent area where every single household owns at least one motor vehicle. There is no public transport available in the community.

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📍 Sherwood, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home in Sherwood has a car, which is well below the 7.4% of Australian households that have no vehicle. Most residents own multiple cars, with 39.4% having two and 24.2% owning four or more.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 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 Sherwood, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 4 or more (24%) and 3 vehicles (21%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving or working from home are the only ways people get to work, as 0.0% use public transport. This is well below the national figure of 3.1%, but the 42.9% who work from home is far above the Australian average of 21.0%.

42.9% ▲ +51.4%

Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 28.3%
  • 2016: 25.5%
  • 2021: 42.9%

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

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 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 Sherwood, Car (driver) is the majority at 53%; Worked at home is next at 41%.

Public transport access

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

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

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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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Sherwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41341/sherwood/topic/transport