5.0% ▼ -18.9%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 7.9%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Spalding · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Spalding
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Spalding than in the rest of the country, with only 4.4% doing so. This rural area relies heavily on private cars for daily travel, as public transport is almost never used for commuting.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have multiple cars, with 18% owning four or more vehicles. Only 5% of households have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the South Australian figure of 7.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Spalding, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 35%, followed by 2 vehicles (29%) and 4 or more (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one in the area uses public transport to get to work. This is well below the national figure of 3.1%, with 67.3% of residents driving themselves to their jobs.
4.4% ▼ -76.8%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.1%
- 2016: 15.6%
- 2021: 4.4%
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: 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
While there are more stops per person than in most similar areas, the service is very infrequent. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the South Australian figure.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
7.69
Higher than 86% 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).
15.4
Higher than 59% 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).
2
Higher than 75% 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.
Travel times are long, with a drive to the city taking 121 minutes. Walking to the nearest stop is also a challenge, taking much longer than in most areas at 63 minutes.
63
Higher than 87% 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.
121
Higher than 81% 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 Spalding [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41358/spalding/topic/transport