10.5% ▼ -25.0%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.0%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Risdon Park · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Risdon Park
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more homes lack a motor vehicle in Risdon Park than in most other areas, with 10.5% of households without one. While the area has a high number of transit stops, very few people actually use them to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 10.5% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well above the South Australian figure of 7.2%. For those who do own cars, the most common arrangement is a single vehicle, found in 40.3% of households.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Risdon Park, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 40%, followed by 2 vehicles (32%) and 3 vehicles (11%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people work from home here, at just 2.4%, which is far below the national figure of 21%. The vast majority of workers rely on cars, with 74% driving themselves to work.
2.4% ▲ +48.4%
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 2.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▲ +54.1%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.3%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.5%
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.
Risdon Park has 30 public transport stops and 4 routes, giving it more stops per person than the state average. However, the number of weekly departures is far below the South Australian figure.
30
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
7.74
Higher than 86% 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).
313.6
Higher than 75% 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).
4
Higher than 82% 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.
It takes an average of 43 minutes to walk to the nearest stop, which is much higher than most similar areas.
43
Higher than 75% 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 Risdon Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41259/risdon-park/topic/transport