1.2% ▲ +28.1%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.9%
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 1.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Riverglades · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Riverglades
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people here own vehicles than in most similar areas, making Riverglades a place where almost every home relies on a car. Only 1.2% of households lack a motor vehicle, which is well below the South Australian figure of 7.2%.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is high, with 40.7% of homes having two vehicles and 16.4% owning four or more. This explains why so few households live without a car compared to the national figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Riverglades, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (20%) and 3 vehicles (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Almost everyone drives to work, with 74.3% as the driver and 5.1% as a passenger. No one uses public transport for their commute, and the 4.6% working from home is far below the Australian figure of 21%.
4.6% ▲ +15.6%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 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 very limited, consisting of a single bus route with only one stop. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the South Australian figure.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.17
Higher than 62% 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).
11.7
Higher than 58% 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).
1
Higher than 71% 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 is centred on the car, with a typical 54-minute drive to the city. It takes about 13 minutes to walk to the nearest transport stop.
13
Higher than 50% 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.
54
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.
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 Riverglades [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41261/riverglades/topic/transport