Roseworthy · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Roseworthy

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Almost every household in Roseworthy (L) owns a motor vehicle, marking it as an area far more car-dependent than most similar places. This reliance on private transport is reflected in the way people get to work, with the vast majority driving themselves.

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📍 Roseworthy, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

No homes in the area are without a motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen 13 points since 2011 and sits well below the South Australian average of 7.2%. Most households are heavily equipped, with 30% owning four or more vehicles.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 13.1%
  • 2016: 1.1%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Roseworthy splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (33%) and 4 or more (30%), with 3 vehicles at 23%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the dominant choice for 73.4% of workers, while only 6.1% work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%. Public transport use is very low at 0.7%, though this is slightly higher than in most similar areas.

6.1% ▲ +11.7%

Lower than 63% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 5.5%
  • 2016: 2.4%
  • 2021: 6.1%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.7% ▲ —

Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.8%
  • 2021: 0.7%

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.

How people get to work

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In Roseworthy, Car (driver) is the majority at 87%; Worked at home is next at 7%.

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 Roseworthy [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL421036/roseworthy/topic/transport