Riverleigh · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Riverleigh

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Total reliance on cars defines daily life in Riverleigh, where not a single home is without a motor vehicle. This is far below the national figure, making private transport the only way to get around in this rural area.

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📍 Riverleigh, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households own multiple cars, with 32.4% having four or more vehicles. This explains why 0.0% of homes lack a car, a figure well below both the Queensland and Australian averages.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Riverleigh, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 4 or more (30%) and 3 vehicles (22%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work for 50.8% of residents, while 20.3% walk. No one here works from home or uses public transport, which is far below the national figure.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 21.6%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Riverleigh, Car (driver) is the majority at 65%; Walked is next at 26%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

There are no public transport stops or routes in Riverleigh. Consequently, weekly departures per 1,000 people are 0.0, which is far below the Queensland average of 720.7.

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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Riverleigh [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32439/riverleigh/topic/transport