1.3% ▼ -48.6%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 1.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Williamstown · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Williamstown
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A tiny 1.3% of homes in Williamstown have no motor vehicle, making it an area where car ownership is far more common than across South Australia. Most households keep multiple cars, while very few people use public transport or work from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is high here, with 39.6% of homes having two vehicles and 15.3% owning four or more. Only 1.3% of households get by without a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Williamstown, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (23%) and 3 vehicles (21%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, with 72% of people as the driver. Very few people use public transport for their commute at 0.3%, and at 8.9%, the rate of people working from home is far below the Australian figure.
8.9% ▲ +77.0%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.0%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 8.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -61.2%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 the area has more public transport routes and stops than most similar places, actual service is limited. Only buses operate here, and weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the state average.
4
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.34
Higher than 63% 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).
23.5
Higher than 60% 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).
7
Higher than 86% 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 46 minutes to drive to the city, which is lower than most areas. However, walking to the nearest stop takes 23 minutes, which is higher than in most other places.
23
Higher than 61% 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.
46
Lower than 64% 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 Williamstown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41602/williamstown/topic/transport