8.2% ▲ +5.5%
Higher than 75% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 7.7%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 8.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Hotham · Federal Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Hotham
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over half of workers in Hotham drive themselves to work, though a striking 23.1% now work from home. This shift is a major change for the area, with the proportion of home-based workers jumping 19 percentage points since 2016.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 8.2% of homes in Hotham have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas. The most common setup is one vehicle (38.1%) or two vehicles (36.9%) per household.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Hotham splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use for commuting is 4.0%, which is higher than most areas, though this figure fell 3.5 points since 2016. More people work from home here than in the national figure.
23.1% —
Higher than 69% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 23.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
4.0% —
Higher than 71% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 4.0%
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.
Hotham has 881 public transport stops and 78 routes, with weekly departures per 1,000 people being a little above the Victorian figure. Buses are the dominant mode, making up 94.6% of the network.
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.
4.50
Lower than 56% 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).
1,547.9
Higher than 72% 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).
78
Higher than 78% 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.
The typical walk to the nearest stop takes 8 minutes. It takes about 24 minutes to drive from Hotham to the city, which is around the middle for similar areas.
8
Higher 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.
24
Lower than 60% 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 Hotham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED222/hotham/topic/transport