Winkie · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Winkie

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Every single home in Winkie has at least one motor vehicle, a rate well below the state and national figures. This total reliance on cars is a defining feature of the area, as there is no public transport available for residents.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households own multiple cars, with 44.2% having two and 25.6% having three. This helps explain why 0.0% of homes lack a vehicle, which is much lower than the 7.4% national figure.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.9%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Winkie, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 47%, followed by 3 vehicles (27%) and 1 vehicle (16%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

About 70.4% of workers drive themselves to work and 10.1% work from home. No one uses public transport to commute, a result that is well below the South Australian average of 4.1%.

10.1% ▼ -4.0%

Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 10.5%
  • 2016: 12.9%
  • 2021: 10.1%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 1.6%
  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Winkie, Car (driver) is the majority at 82%; Worked at home is next at 12%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

There are no public transport stops or routes in Winkie. This leaves the area far below the South Australian average for both the number of stops and weekly departures per 1,000 people.

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Walking to the nearest transport stop would take around 83 minutes, which is among the highest times recorded for areas of this level.

83

Higher than 98% 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.

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 Winkie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41618/winkie/topic/transport