3709, VIC · Postcode

Transport & Vehicles in 3709, VIC

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Not a single home in postcode 3709 lacks a motor vehicle, a figure well below the 7.4% national average. This total reliance on cars is paired with a high number of people working from home, which helps explain why almost no one uses public transport to get to work.

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📍 3709, VIC, Postcode

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes here have multiple cars, with 38.3% owning two and 17.5% owning four or more. This trend has grown since 2011, when 6.5% of households had no vehicle, down to 0.0% today.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of postcode areas.

  • 2011: 6.5%
  • 2016: 9.8%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In 3709, VIC, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 37%, followed by 1 vehicle (26%) and 3 vehicles (20%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is far more common here than across Australia, at 31.2%. While 38.4% of people drive to work, 0.0% use public transport, a figure that has fallen slightly since 2011.

31.2% ▼ -10.0%

Higher than 84% of postcode areas.

  • 2011: 34.6%
  • 2016: 29.2%
  • 2021: 31.2%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of postcode areas.

  • 2011: 1.9%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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.

How people get to work

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In 3709, VIC, the largest group is Car (driver) at 44%, followed by Worked at home (36%) and Walked (17%).

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

There are 6.51 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is well above the Victorian figure of 4.41. However, these two bus stops provide very few services, with weekly departures far below the state average.

6.51

Higher than 78% of postcode areas.

Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).

65.1

Lower than 57% of postcode 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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in 3709, VIC [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA3709/3709-vic/topic/transport