12.1% ▼ -16.5%
Higher than 88% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 12.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Croydon · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Croydon
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people in Croydon are working from home than in 2011, but far fewer households go without a car. It is a place where 12.1% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well above the national figure of 7.4%. This trend toward car ownership sits alongside a high reliance on public transport for daily trips.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 12.1% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas and well above the South Australian figure of 7.2%. Most households have one or two cars, though this carless rate has fallen 2.4 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Croydon, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 40%, followed by 2 vehicles (33%) and No vehicle (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use for work is among the highest for similar areas at 7.5%, well above the national figure of 3.1%. Meanwhile, the 8.0% of people working from home is far below the Australian average of 21.0%.
8.0% ▲ +210.9%
Lower than 76% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 8.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
7.5% ▼ -19.6%
Higher than 92% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 9.3%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 7.5%
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.
Croydon has 1,505.3 weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is a little above the South Australian figure. The area is served by 36 routes and 197 stops, with buses making up 92.1% of the available transport.
197
Lower than 67% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.60
Higher than 50% of state electorate areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
1,505.3
Higher than 70% of state electorate 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).
36
Higher than 71% of state electorate areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Croydon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40008/croydon/topic/transport