3.6% ▼ -28.8%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 3.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Riverside · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Riverside
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Most people in Riverside rely heavily on their own cars to get around, with 70.7% of workers driving themselves to their jobs. While the area has plenty of bus stops and routes, very few people actually use them for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common here, with 36.4% of homes owning two vehicles. Only 3.6% of households have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the Tasmanian figure of 6.1%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Riverside splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is rare in Riverside, with only 6.5% of people doing so, a figure far below the Australian average of 21%. Public transport use is also low, with just 0.8% of workers commuting by bus.
6.5% ▲ +56.3%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 6.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.8% ▼ -36.1%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 0.8%
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.
The area has 48 public transport stops and 19 routes, which is among the largest at this level. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are much higher than most similar areas and about the same as the state figure.
48
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
6.55
Higher than 84% 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).
765.5
Higher than 83% 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).
19
Higher than 86% 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 to the city takes a long time, with a typical drive of 158 minutes. Walking to the nearest stop can also take up to 60 minutes, which is much higher than most areas.
60
Higher than 85% 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.
158
Higher than 91% 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).
More for Riverside
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Riverside [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60557/riverside/topic/transport