4.4% ▼ -1.3%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.5%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 4.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wallaroo Mines · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Wallaroo Mines
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people without cars live in Wallaroo Mines than in most similar areas, though only 4.4% of homes lack a vehicle. The community relies heavily on private transport, with almost no one using public transit to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, and 35.8% have two. While the share of households without a motor vehicle is higher than in most similar areas, it remains a little below the South Australian figure of 7.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Wallaroo Mines splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 1 vehicle (34%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Cars are the main way to get to work, with 70.6% of people driving. Very few people work from home at 4.7%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%, and no one here commutes by public transport.
4.7% ▼ -16.9%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 4.7%
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 limited to two bus routes and one stop. This results in only 17.2 weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure that is far below the South Australian average of 1,317.
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.
2.45
Higher than 67% 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).
17.2
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.
It takes about 95 minutes to drive to the city, which is longer than in most similar areas. The walk to the nearest public transport stop takes around 15 minutes.
15
Higher 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.
95
Higher than 66% 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 Wallaroo Mines [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41519/wallaroo-mines/topic/transport