0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wool Bay · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Wool Bay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over 43% of workers in Wool Bay drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. While most homes own at least one vehicle, nearly a quarter of the workforce now works from home, which is far above the South Australian figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Wool Bay has at least one motor vehicle. This is well below the South Australian and national figures, where around 7% of households have no car.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Wool Bay splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (41%) and 2 vehicles (39%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common here, with 24.3% of people doing so—well above the national figure of 21%. No one in the area uses public transport to get to work.
24.3% ▲ +21.6%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 24.3%
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 6.49 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is well above the state average. However, the number of weekly departures is 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.
6.49
Higher than 83% 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).
39.0
Higher than 62% 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).
3
Higher than 79% 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.
Getting to the nearest transport stop takes 42 minutes on foot, which is much higher than most areas.
42
Higher than 75% 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 Wool Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41649/wool-bay/topic/transport