South Kilkerran · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in South Kilkerran

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

More than half of households in South Kilkerran have two motor vehicles, highlighting a heavy reliance on cars for daily life. While the area is sparsely populated, it has a very high rate of people working from home compared to the rest of the country.

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📍 South Kilkerran, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home here owns a motor vehicle, which is well below the national and state figures. Most households are well-equipped, with 52.4% owning two vehicles and 42.9% owning three.

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 South Kilkerran, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 3 vehicles (33%) and 1 vehicle (15%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

A third of workers here work from home, a figure far above the national average of 21%. Nobody uses public transport to get to work, while 33.3% drive and 23.3% walk.

33.3% —

Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 28.0%
  • 2021: 33.3%

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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South Kilkerran splits fairly evenly between Car (driver) (37%) and Worked at home (37%), with Walked at 26%.

Public transport access

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

There is only one bus route and one stop in the area. While the number of stops per person is far above the state average, the number of weekly departures is far below that of South Australia.

16.95

Higher than 91% 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).

67.8

Higher than 65% 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 is challenging, with a 29-minute walk to the nearest stop. The drive time to the city is 111 minutes, which is much higher than most areas.

29

Higher than 66% 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.

111

Higher than 75% 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 South Kilkerran [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41355/south-kilkerran/topic/transport