5.4% ▼ -90.0%
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 53.8%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 5.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
American River · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in American River
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A huge gap exists between American River (L) and the rest of the country in how people travel, with 0.0% of workers using public transport. Most residents rely on their own cars to get around. This is a highly car-dependent area where working from home has become more common over the last decade.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost 43% of households here own two vehicles. While 5.4% of homes have no motor vehicle, this is much lower than it was in 2011, when 53.8% of homes were without one.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →American River splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (41%) and 1 vehicle (38%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
The typical worker drives a car to work, but 13.3% now work from home, a figure that has risen 13 points since 2011. This is well above the South Australian figure of 9.6%, though well below the national rate of 21.0%.
13.3% ▲ —
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 14.1%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 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 American River [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL422003/american-river/topic/transport