2.9% ▼ -19.4%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 2.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Waitpinga · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Waitpinga
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people in Waitpinga go without a car compared to the national figure, with only 2.9% of homes lacking a vehicle. This creates a strong reliance on private transport in an area where almost no one uses public transit to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households are well-equipped for travel, as 51.1% have two vehicles and another 38.8% have three or more. Only a tiny fraction of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the 7.4% seen across Australia.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Waitpinga, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 49%, followed by 3 vehicles (22%) and 4 or more (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common here, with 20.8% of people doing so—a figure far above the South Australian average. This contrasts with public transport use for work, which is well below the state and national figures at 0.0%.
20.8% ▲ +98.1%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.5%
- 2016: 16.8%
- 2021: 20.8%
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.
Public transport is very limited, with only one bus route and one stop serving the area. This results in weekly departures per 1,000 people that are far below the South Australian figure.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.67
Higher than 68% 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).
13.4
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).
1
Higher than 71% 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.
The drive time to the city is 64 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.
64
Lower than 53% 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 Waitpinga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41512/waitpinga/topic/transport