7.2% ▼ -19.8%
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 7.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
South Australia · State / Territory
Transport & Vehicles in South Australia
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 64% of people in South Australia drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. Most homes have at least one vehicle, though the number of households without a car has fallen since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 7.2% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is about the same as the national figure. Most households have one or two cars, while 7.1% of homes own four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →South Australia splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has risen to 9.6% since 2011, though this remains far below the Australian figure of 21%. Meanwhile, 4.1% of people commute by public transport, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
9.6% ▲ +130.0%
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 9.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
4.1% ▼ -24.6%
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 4.1%
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.
The network is dominated by buses, which make up 95.1% of services. With 1,317 weekly departures per 1,000 people, South Australia has much higher service frequency than most similar areas.
8,830
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.96
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
1,317.0
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).
539
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 South Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ste/4/south-australia/topic/transport