4.5% ▼ -22.4%
Lower than 59% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 5.8%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 4.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Hume · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Hume
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 60% of working residents in Hume drive themselves to work. This is a car-reliant area where very few homes go without a vehicle. While public transport infrastructure is extensive, the typical journey to the city takes about 26 minutes.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Private cars are common here, with 41.3% of homes owning two vehicles and only 4.5% having none. This lack of car-free households is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6% and has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Hume, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (31%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has surged to 17.8% since 2011, though this remains well below the national figure of 21.0%. Only 2.5% of people use public transport to get to work, a figure that has fallen by 2.8 percentage points over the last decade.
17.8% ▲ +765.3%
Higher than 74% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 17.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.5% ▼ -53.0%
Higher than 72% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 2.5%
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.
Hume has a large network of 64 routes and 1,060 stops, with bus services making up 98% of the options. The number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is much higher than in most similar areas.
1,060
Higher than 87% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.35
Higher than 63% 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).
1,312.4
Higher than 84% 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).
64
Higher than 86% 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.
Despite the high number of transport stops, the walk to the nearest one takes 59 minutes on average, which is much higher than in most areas.
59
Higher than 86% of council (lga) 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.
26
Lower than 67% 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 Hume
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Hume [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA23270/hume/topic/transport