5.6% ▼ -30.8%
Higher than 50% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 8.0%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Flinders · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Flinders
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Very few public transport options define the way people move around Flinders, where a tiny 0.6% of workers use transit to get to their jobs. Reliance on cars is high, and the area has some of the lowest access to transport services across the region.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 38.5% owning two vehicles. The proportion of households without a motor vehicle is 5.6%, which is a little below the South Australian figure and has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Flinders, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 64.8% of residents. While 9.6% of people now work from home—a rise of 7.5 points since 2011—this is far below the national figure of 21%.
9.6% ▲ +348.5%
Lower than 67% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 9.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -93.2%
Lower than 86% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 is very limited, with only 4 routes and 39 stops serving the area. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the South Australian figure, and all available services are buses.
39
Lower than 94% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.09
Lower than 94% 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).
7.0
Lower than 99% 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).
4
Lower than 94% 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 Flinders [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40015/flinders/topic/transport