2.1% ▼ -11.7%
Lower than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 2.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Ridgley · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Four in five people in Ridgley drive themselves to work, making cars the dominant way to get around. This small area is heavily reliant on private vehicles, with very few people using public transport or working from home. Most households have multiple cars to meet their travel needs.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Private car ownership is very high in Ridgley, where only 2.1% of homes have no motor vehicle. This is well below the Tasmanian figure of 6.1% and the national figure of 7.4%.
2.1% ▼ -11.7%
Lower than 69% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
In Ridgley, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 1 vehicle (25%) and 4 or more (16%).
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, as 0.0% of residents use public transport or work from home. The lack of home-based work is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%, and this trend has fallen since 2011.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Ridgley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL622020/ridgley/topic/transport