1.5% ▼ -26.1%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 1.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Renmark West · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Renmark West
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people rely on public transport in Renmark West than across the state or nation. Almost every household here owns a car, with a small minority of people walking to work and very few working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are essential here, as only 1.5% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households have multiple cars, with 38.2% owning two and 25.8% owning three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Renmark West, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 3 vehicles (26%) and 1 vehicle (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 71.2% of people as the driver. Only 7.4% of residents work from home, a figure far below the Australian average of 21%.
7.4% ▲ +16.0%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.0% ▲ +120.5%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.4%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 1.0%
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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means service levels are far below the South Australian figure.
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.
Getting around without a car is difficult, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 44 minutes, which is much higher than most similar areas.
44
Higher than 76% 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 Renmark West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41251/renmark-west/topic/transport