6.0% ▼ -11.7%
Higher than 58% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 6.8%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Riverina · Federal Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Riverina
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Riverina compared to the rest of the state, with only 10.3% doing so. This is a place where most residents rely on their own cars to get around, and public transport is used by very few.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, and only 6% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%. About 37% of homes have two vehicles, while 14.1% have three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Riverina splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 66.5% of people as the driver. Very few people use public transport to commute (0.6%), and the share of people working from home is far below the national figure of 21%.
10.3% —
Lower than 72% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% —
Lower than 86% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 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 limited here, with only 3.82 stops per 1,000 people, which is well below the state average. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are also far below New South Wales levels, and the service is almost entirely buses.
616
Lower than 77% of federal electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.82
Lower than 73% of federal 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).
153.9
Lower than 93% of federal 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).
87
Higher than 86% of federal 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 Riverina [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED139/riverina/topic/transport