0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Waterloo · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Waterloo
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over a third of people in Waterloo work from home, the most common way residents get to their jobs. This is a car-dependent area where almost every household owns at least one vehicle and there are no public transport options available.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Waterloo has a motor vehicle, which is well below the state and national figures. Nearly half of all households own two vehicles, and about 12% have four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Waterloo, 2 vehicles is the majority at 59%; 1 vehicle is next at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here at 35.3%, far above the South Australian and national figures. Other residents mostly drive themselves to work, while 14.7% walk.
35.3% ▼ -2.7%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.3%
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 35.3%
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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means weekly departures are far below the state figure of 1,317 per 1,000 people.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
Lower than 99% 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).
0.0
Lower than 99% 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).
0
Lower than 99% 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 88 minutes to drive from Waterloo to the city, which is a longer trip than in most similar areas.
88
Higher than 62% 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 Waterloo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41546/waterloo/topic/transport