2.5% ▼ -68.7%
Lower than 99% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
La Trobe · Federal Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in La Trobe
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A huge reliance on cars defines daily life in La Trobe, where only 2.5% of homes have no motor vehicle. This makes it one of the areas with the lowest rate of car-less households in the country. Most people here depend on their own transport to get around the large local area.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Nearly 45% of homes have two vehicles, and about 25% have three or more. The share of households without a car has fallen 5.4 points since 2011, leaving La Trobe well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In La Trobe, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 1 vehicle (28%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common for 20% of residents, a figure that rose 13 points since 2016. Very few people use public transport to get to work, at just 1.5%, which is a little below the national average.
20.0% —
Higher than 61% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.5% —
Lower than 66% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 1.5%
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 limited here, with weekly departures per 1,000 people far below the Victorian figure. Bus services make up the vast majority of the local network, accounting for 93.2% of routes.
602
Lower than 78% of federal electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.55
Lower than 78% 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).
659.6
Lower than 69% 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).
41
Lower than 71% 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 into the city takes longer than in most areas, with a typical drive time of 45 minutes. Residents also face a longer walk to the nearest transport stop, which takes about 12 minutes.
12
Higher than 63% 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.
45
Higher than 67% 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 La Trobe [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED227/la-trobe/topic/transport