4.5% ▼ -29.8%
Lower than 65% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 4.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Finniss · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Finniss
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Getting around Finniss relies almost entirely on private cars, as public transport is very limited. Only 4.5% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the national figure and a decrease since 2011. This high level of car ownership is essential for daily life in an area where very few people use transit to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own multiple cars, with 35.8% having two and 11.3% having three. The proportion of homes without a vehicle is lower than in most other similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Finniss, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 42%, followed by 2 vehicles (36%) and 3 vehicles (11%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 63.8% of people being the driver. Very few people use public transport to commute (0.3%), which is well below the South Australian figure of 4.1%.
11.5% ▲ +28.3%
Lower than 56% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -65.2%
Lower than 98% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 0.3%
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.
Public transport options are very sparse, with only 7 routes and 53 stops serving the area. The number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state average, and all available services are buses.
53
Lower than 91% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.56
Lower than 92% 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).
52.5
Lower than 95% 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).
7
Lower than 90% 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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Finniss [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40014/finniss/topic/transport