6.8% ▲ +1.5%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 6.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Riverton · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Riverton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A massive gap in working habits defines Riverton (L), where almost no one uses public transport and far fewer people work from home than in the rest of Australia. This small area relies heavily on cars for travel, with very few alternatives available for those commuting to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Riverton (L) have one or two cars, though 6.8% of households have no motor vehicle. This is much higher than most similar areas, despite being about the same as the South Australian and national figures.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Riverton, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 43%, followed by 2 vehicles (35%) and 3 vehicles (9%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here commutes by public transport, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%. Reliance on cars is high, and only 4.3% of people work from home, a figure far below the 21% seen across Australia.
4.3% ▼ -8.0%
Lower than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.7%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 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.
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 Riverton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL421035/riverton/topic/transport