3.8% ▼ -21.4%
Lower than 86% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 4.9%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Flinders · Federal Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Flinders
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer homes without a car have been recorded in Flinders since 2011, as the area remains heavily reliant on private vehicles. Only 3.8% of households have no motor vehicle, and most residents face a 55-minute drive to reach the city.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Private cars are essential here, with 41.1% of homes owning two vehicles and 3.8% having none, which is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Flinders, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (35%) and 3 vehicles (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has risen sharply to 21% since 2016, while only 0.5% of the workforce uses public transport, a figure much lower than most other areas.
21.0% —
Higher than 64% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 21.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% —
Lower than 87% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 0.5%
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.
Public transport is limited, with only 11 routes and weekly departures per 1,000 people that are far below the Victorian average.
653
Lower than 72% of federal electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.34
Lower than 60% 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).
691.4
Lower than 67% 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).
11
Lower than 95% 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.
Getting around is challenging for those without a car, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 86 minutes, among the highest times for any similar area.
86
Higher than 99% of federal electorate areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
55
Higher than 74% 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 Flinders [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED213/flinders/topic/transport