5.0% ▼ -35.9%
Lower than 61% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 7.9%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Gippsland · Federal Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Gippsland
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 0.4% of people use public transport to get to work in Gippsland, making it much lower than most areas. Most residents rely on their own cars to get around, while very few people work from home compared to the rest of the state.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few homes are without a car here, with only 5.0% having no motor vehicle, a figure that is a little below the national average. Most households own one or two vehicles, while 8.6% have four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Gippsland 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 travel, with 64.6% of workers being the driver. Those working from home make up 12.0% of the workforce, which is far below the Victorian figure of 25.7%.
12.0% —
Lower than 64% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% —
Lower than 92% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 mainly provided by buses, though weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the state average. While there are 80 different routes, there are only 4.25 stops per 1,000 people.
656
Lower than 71% of federal electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.25
Lower than 63% 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).
342.3
Lower than 82% 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).
80
Higher than 80% of federal electorate areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Gippsland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED216/gippsland/topic/transport