5.3% ▼ -29.8%
Higher than 54% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 5.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Greater Geelong · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Greater Geelong
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over half of the workforce in Greater Geelong drive themselves to work. While car reliance is high, the area has seen a massive shift in how people operate, with the number of people working from home leaping by 16 percentage points since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, and 40.4% have two. The share of households without any motor vehicle is 5.3%, which is a little below the national figure and has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Greater Geelong splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, with 58.6% as the driver. Very few people use public transport for their commute, at just 1.4%, which is a little below the figures for Victoria and Australia.
18.7% ▲ +479.1%
Higher than 76% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 18.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.4% ▼ -56.7%
Higher than 58% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 1.4%
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.
Greater Geelong has a large network with 1,381 stops and 73 routes, making it one of the largest at this level. The number of stops per 1,000 people is a little above the state average, though weekly departures are a little below.
1,381
Higher than 88% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.09
Higher than 73% of council (lga) areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
1,079.2
Higher than 81% of council (lga) 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).
73
Higher than 87% of council (lga) 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 drive time to the city is 62 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.
62
Higher than 53% of council (lga) 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).
More for Greater Geelong
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Greater Geelong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA22750/greater-geelong/topic/transport