6.2% ▲ +14.4%
Higher than 59% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 6.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Goldstein · Federal Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Goldstein
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than 42% of workers in Goldstein work from home, which is far above the national figure. This shift to home-based work is a huge change from 2016, when only 2.5% of the workforce did so. While most residents rely on cars, the area has very quick access to the city and local transit.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 40.3% owning two vehicles. Only 6.2% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is higher than most similar areas but slightly below the Victorian average.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Goldstein splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (39%), with 3 vehicles at 10%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is the most common way to get to work, with 42.1% of people doing so. This is far above the 21% national figure. Meanwhile, use of public transport for commuting fell to 3.1% since 2016.
42.1% —
Higher than 91% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 42.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.1% —
Higher than 58% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 3.1%
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.
The area has 702 public transport stops, mostly buses. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are higher than most areas and a little above the Victorian figure.
702
Lower than 64% of federal electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.54
Lower than 55% 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).
1,389.4
Higher than 64% 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).
37
Lower than 77% 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 efficient, with a very short two-minute walk to the nearest stop. The drive time to the city is only 15 minutes, which is much lower than most areas.
2
Lower than 86% 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.
15
Lower than 83% 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 Goldstein [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED217/goldstein/topic/transport