8.7% ▼ -46.4%
Higher than 78% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 16.3%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 8.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Elder · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Elder
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than half of workers in Elder rely on driving themselves to work, as cars are the most common way to get around. Despite this, the area has a high level of public transport access and more people without a car than in most similar places. While car use is high, the typical home here has two vehicles.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 8.7% of homes in Elder have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas and a little above the national figure. This is a big drop from 2011, when 16.3% of households were without a car.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Elder splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use for commuting is 6.4%, which is well above the Australian figure of 3.1%. Meanwhile, working from home rose significantly since 2011 to reach 11.3%, though this remains well below the national level.
11.3% ▲ +473.8%
Lower than 57% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 11.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
6.4% ▼ -24.9%
Higher than 89% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 6.4%
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.
Elder is well-connected, with 55 public transport routes and 221 stops. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are 1,849.9, which is well above the South Australian figure of 1,317.0.
221
Lower than 61% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.64
Higher than 72% 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).
1,849.9
Higher than 80% 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).
55
Higher than 86% 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 Elder [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40011/elder/topic/transport