5.9% ▼ -37.0%
Higher than 56% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Isaacs · Federal Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Isaacs
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A massive shift in how people work has hit Isaacs since 2016, with working from home jumping from 6.4% to 29.5%. This change is part of a broader trend where cars remain essential for most, though fewer households are without a vehicle than in 2011. Now, nearly 30% of the workforce avoids a daily commute entirely.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have at least one car, with 40.6% owning two. Only 5.9% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is a little below the national figure and has fallen by 3.5 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Isaacs splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (41%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is well above the national figure at 29.5%. In contrast, only 2.2% of people use public transport to get to work, which is about the same as the state and national figures but a huge 15 point drop since 2016.
29.5% —
Higher than 78% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 29.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.2% —
Lower than 54% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 16.8%
- 2021: 2.2%
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 874 public transport stops, and the number of stops and weekly departures per 1,000 people are both a little above the Victorian figures. Busses are the primary service, making up 92.2% of the network.
874
Higher than 66% of federal electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.44
Higher than 74% 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).
1,384.8
Higher than 63% 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).
58
Higher than 54% 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 can be slow, with a typical 35-minute drive to the city. It is also much harder to reach transit than in most areas, with a typical 30-minute walk to the nearest stop.
30
Higher than 82% 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.
35
Higher 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 Isaacs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED224/isaacs/topic/transport