0.8% ▲ —
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Strathalbyn · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Strathalbyn
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Heavy reliance on cars defines daily life in Strathalbyn, where almost every home owns at least one vehicle. Only 0.8% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average. This makes the area far more car-dependent than most of Australia.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 46.4% of homes owning two vehicles and 19.8% owning four or more. Very few homes get by without a car, which is much lower than the 7.4% national figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Strathalbyn, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 4 or more (19%) and 3 vehicles (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, as only 4.2% of residents work from home—a rate far below the Australian average of 21%. Public transport use for commuting is very low at 0.9%, which is a little below the national figure.
4.2% ▲ +19.5%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.9% ▼ -41.6%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the state figure of 1,623.
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.
Getting around without a car is difficult, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 29 minutes, which is higher than in most similar areas.
29
Higher than 66% 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 Strathalbyn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51410/strathalbyn/topic/transport