4.9% ▼ -33.8%
Higher than 50% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 4.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Orbost · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Transport & Vehicles in Orbost
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Just 0.4% of workers in Orbost use public transport to get to work, showing a heavy reliance on cars. Most homes here own multiple vehicles, and very few residents have any access to trains or trams.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have at least one car, and 36.6% own two. Only 4.9% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the national figure and down from 7.5% in 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Orbost splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Over half of workers drive themselves to work, and 17.1% work from home. This work-from-home rate has risen by 5.8 points since 2011, though it remains well below the Victorian average of 25.7%.
17.1% ▲ +51.0%
Higher than 58% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 17.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -58.9%
Lower than 87% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 0.9%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.4%
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.
Public transport is limited to buses, with just 27 stops and 5 routes serving the area. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the state figure, sitting at 75.7 compared to Victoria's 1,267.9.
27
Lower than 63% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.01
Lower than 55% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
75.7
Lower than 82% of statistical area 2 (sa2) 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).
5
Lower than 64% of statistical area 2 (sa2) 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 Orbost [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/205021085/orbost/topic/transport