2.5% ▼ -47.2%
Lower than 87% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 4.7%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Towong · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Towong
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every single home in Towong relies on a car to get around. With only 2.5% of households without a motor vehicle, car ownership is far more common here than in most other Australian areas.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Owning a car is the norm, as 39.4% of homes have two vehicles and 13.3% have four or more. The number of homes without any vehicle fell by 2.2 percentage points since 2011 to reach a low of 2.5%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Towong, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (27%) and 3 vehicles (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 56.4% of people commuting as the driver. While 17.8% work from home—a figure that rose 3.1 percentage points since 2011—public transport use is very low at just 0.2%.
17.8% ▲ +21.6%
Higher than 74% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 14.6%
- 2016: 14.1%
- 2021: 17.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -74.9%
Lower than 80% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.2%
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 minimal, consisting of only two bus routes and eight stops. With just 10 weekly departures per 1,000 people, access is far below the Victorian figure of 1,267.9.
8
Lower than 64% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.29
Lower than 69% 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).
10.0
Lower than 70% 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).
2
Lower than 67% 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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Towong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA26670/towong/topic/transport