14.4% ▲ +59.7%
Higher than 92% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 14.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Higgins · Federal Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Higgins
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people work from home in Higgins than in most similar areas, with 43.2% of the workforce avoiding a daily commute. This shift is part of a broader trend where car reliance is lower than usual, and a significant number of households live without a motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 14.4% of homes here have no motor vehicle, which is well above the figures for Victoria and Australia. This is a growing trend, as the share of car-free households rose 5.4 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Higgins, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 47%, followed by 2 vehicles (29%) and No vehicle (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has surged to 43.2% since 2016, a figure far above the national average. While 5.8% of people use public transport to get to work—a little above the state average—this is down 4.3 percentage points from 2016.
43.2% —
Higher than 92% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 43.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
5.8% —
Higher than 86% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 5.8%
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.
The area has a high volume of service, with 1,862.8 weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is well above the Victoria figure. Trams are the most common mode of transport at 53.8%, followed by buses at 36.1%.
655
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.
4.22
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).
1,862.8
Higher 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).
52
Lower than 53% 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.
It is a very accessible location, with a typical drive time to the city of only 14 minutes. The walk to the nearest public transport stop takes about 6 minutes on average.
6
Lower than 54% 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.
14
Lower than 86% 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 Higgins [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED220/higgins/topic/transport