5.1% ▼ -26.7%
Higher than 50% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 6.9%
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Southern Grampians · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Southern Grampians
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over 61% of working residents in Southern Grampians drive themselves to work. This reliance on private cars is a key feature of the area, where very few people use public transport for their daily commute. While there are more stops per person than in most similar areas, actual service levels remain far below the state average.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have at least one car, with 35% owning two and 15.8% owning three. Only 5.1% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is a little below the national average and has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Southern Grampians splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (35%) and 1 vehicle (33%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home rose to 15% by 2021, though this is still well below the national figure. Almost no one uses public transport to get to work, with only 0.1% doing so, which is much lower than most areas.
15.0% ▲ +41.7%
Higher than 65% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 10.6%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 15.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.1% ▼ -71.4%
Lower than 91% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 0.3%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.1%
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 5.31 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is a little above the Victorian average. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state figure, and all services are provided by buses.
88
Higher than 60% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.31
Higher than 76% 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).
209.4
Higher than 61% 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).
7
Higher than 50% of council (lga) areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Southern Grampians [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA26260/southern-grampians/topic/transport