2.5% ▼ -67.5%
Lower than 91% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 7.6%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Southern River (South Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Southern River (South Metropolitan)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Reliance on private cars is very high in Southern River, where only 2.5% of homes have no motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure and reflects a community that depends heavily on driving for daily needs. Most households here own multiple cars to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common, with 43.5% of homes owning two vehicles and 9.3% owning four or more. The share of homes without a car has fallen 5.1 percentage points since 2011, leaving this area with a much lower rate of car-less households than most similar places.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Southern River (South Metropolitan), the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (28%) and 3 vehicles (17%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 68.3% of residents being the driver. Only 3.0% use public transport, and at 5.7%, the number of people working from home is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
5.7% ▲ +37.9%
Lower than 87% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.0% ▼ -71.0%
Higher than 59% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 10.5%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 3.0%
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.
Buses make up 97% of the public transport options here, supported by 237 stops. While the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is higher than most areas, there are slightly fewer stops per person than the state average.
237
Lower than 56% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.63
Higher than 51% of state electorate areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
1,305.0
Higher than 62% of state electorate 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).
20
Lower than 67% of state electorate areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Southern River (South Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED55005/southern-river/topic/transport