0.6% ▼ -91.8%
Lower than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 0.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
River Heads · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in River Heads
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every single home in River Heads has a car, with only 0.6% of households without a vehicle. This makes the area far more reliant on private transport than the rest of the state. Most residents depend on their own cars to get around, while very few use public transport.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common here, with 42.7% of homes owning two vehicles and 10.1% having four or more. The number of homes without a car has fallen sharply since 2011, leaving River Heads well below the national figure for vehicle-free households.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In River Heads, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (28%) and 3 vehicles (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 65% of residents. While the number of people working from home rose to 11.1% since 2011, this remains well below the Australian average; meanwhile, only 0.5% of workers use public transport.
11.1% ▲ +109.3%
Higher than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▲ —
Higher than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 3.6%
- 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.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in River Heads [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315084/river-heads/topic/transport