18.5% ▼ -7.5%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.0%
- 2016: 14.4%
- 2021: 18.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Solomontown · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Solomontown
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car reliance has remained the dominant way to move around Solomontown, though it is one of the few areas where nearly one in five homes have no motor vehicle. This high number of car-free households stands in sharp contrast to the same figure for the rest of the state. While public transport options are physically available, very few people actually use them to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 18.5% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is far above the South Australian figure of 7.2%. For those who do own a car, the most common arrangement is a single vehicle, found in 43.8% of households.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Solomontown, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 44%, followed by 2 vehicles (25%) and No vehicle (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one in Solomontown uses public transport to get to work, and only 1.1% work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%. Most people rely on cars, with 69.5% driving themselves to work.
1.1% ▼ -44.0%
Lower than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 1.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
The area has 14 public transport stops and 4 routes, leaving it with more stops per person than most similar areas. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state average.
14
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
12.87
Higher than 89% 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).
466.0
Higher than 78% 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).
4
Higher than 82% 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.
It takes about 11 minutes to walk to the nearest public transport stop, a time that is around the middle for similar areas.
11
Lower than 53% 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.
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 Solomontown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41351/solomontown/topic/transport