0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
The Ridgeway · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in The Ridgeway
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people live without a car in The Ridgeway than in the rest of the country, with 0% of homes lacking a vehicle. This reliance on private transport is clear across the area, as every single person who commutes uses a car or works from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have multiple cars, with 40% owning two and another 25.5% owning four or more. This explains why the area has a much lower rate of vehicle-less homes than the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In The Ridgeway, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 4 or more (29%) and 1 vehicle (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is a choice for 17.7% of residents, though this is well below the 21% national average. The rest of the workforce relies on cars, as 0% of people use public transport to get to work.
17.7% ▲ +15.2%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.4%
- 2016: 11.2%
- 2021: 17.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 virtually non-existent here, with zero stops and zero routes. This is far below the New South Wales average of 5.27 stops per 1,000 people.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
0.0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality 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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
The lack of infrastructure means the walk to the nearest transport stop takes about 32 minutes, which is longer than in most similar areas.
32
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
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)).
- Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in The Ridgeway [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13852/the-ridgeway/topic/transport