4.8% ▼ -68.3%
Lower than 67% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 15.1%
- 2016: 12.9%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bendigo · Federal Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Bendigo
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A reliance on cars defines daily life in Bendigo, where only 4.8% of homes have no motor vehicle. While the area has a high number of public transport stops, very few people actually use them to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own at least one car, with 38.4% having two and 13.9% having three. This is reflected in the fact that the share of homes without a vehicle has fallen 10 points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Bendigo splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (34%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, as only 0.8% of people use public transport—a figure that fell 17 points since 2016. Working from home rose to 16.0% in the same period, though this is well below the national figure of 21.0%.
16.0% —
Higher than 50% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 16.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.8% —
Lower than 80% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 17.7%
- 2021: 0.8%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Bendigo has 5.77 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is well above the Victorian average. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state figure, and almost all services are buses.
881
Higher than 67% of federal electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.77
Higher than 81% of federal electorate areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
711.8
Lower than 66% of federal electorate areas.
Scheduled weekly public-transport departures from stops in the area, per 1,000 residents — how often transit actually runs, not just whether a stop exists (GTFS schedules for a representative week; population from the 2021 Census).
66
Higher than 64% of federal electorate areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Traveling to the city takes a long time here, with a typical drive time of 94 minutes, which is much higher than most similar areas.
94
Higher than 89% of federal electorate areas.
Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
- Public transport timetables (GTFS) — State & territory transport agencies, 2026 (CC BY 4.0 (WA: custom PTA licence)).
- Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Bendigo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED203/bendigo/topic/transport