4.4% ▼ -28.1%
Lower than 75% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 4.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Monash · Federal Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Monash
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over 61% of workers in Monash drive themselves to work, highlighting a heavy reliance on cars in this area. Very few people use public transport to commute, and the region has much lower access to transit services than the state average.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common here, with only 4.4% of homes having no motor vehicle. This is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%, and the proportion of car-free homes has fallen by 1.7 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Monash splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (34%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home rose by 13 percentage points since 2016 to reach 16.0%, though this is still well below the national figure. Only 0.5% of people use public transport to get to work, a figure that has fallen significantly since 2016.
16.0% —
Higher than 50% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 16.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% —
Lower than 88% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 0.5%
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, with weekly departures per 1,000 people far below the Victorian average. The system is almost entirely based on buses, which make up 95.6% of the mode, while there are 571 total stops across the area.
571
Lower than 82% of federal electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.90
Lower than 72% 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).
324.9
Lower than 83% 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).
46
Lower than 62% 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 slow for those heading to the city, with a drive time of 71 minutes, which is much higher than most areas. Walking to the nearest stop takes about 11 minutes, also higher than most places.
11
Higher than 61% 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.
71
Higher than 84% 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 Monash [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED235/monash/topic/transport