Manor Lakes - Quandong · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)

Transport & Vehicles in Manor Lakes - Quandong

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

Very few people in Manor Lakes - Quandong get around without a car, as only 2.6% of homes have no motor vehicle. This reliance on driving is common for the area, which takes a long 50 minutes to reach the city. Despite this, a huge 34.5% of the workforce now works from home.

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📍 Manor Lakes - Quandong, Statistical Area 2 (SA2)

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is high here, with 41.6% of homes owning two vehicles and 43.2% owning one. This means the 2.6% of households without a car is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

Motor vehicles per home

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Manor Lakes - Quandong splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (43%) and 2 vehicles (42%), with 3 vehicles at 9%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is far more common here than across Australia, at 34.5%. While 39.4% of workers drive as the main driver, 6.4% use public transport, which is well above the Victorian average of 2.9%.

6.4% —

Higher than 88% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.

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 Manor Lakes - Quandong, the largest group is Car (driver) at 47%, followed by Worked at home (41%) and Train (7%).

Public transport access

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

Public transport options are limited, with only 14 stops and 3 routes serving the area. This results in just 1.32 stops per 1,000 people, a figure far below the state average of 4.41.

14

Lower than 77% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.

Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.

1.32

Lower than 85% 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).

241.1

Lower than 72% 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).

10,616

Lower than 68% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.

How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).

10,616

Lower than 84% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.

How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Daily travel is dominated by long distances, as the drive time to the city is 50 minutes. This is much higher than most similar areas.

50

Higher than 74% of statistical area 2 (sa2) 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)).
  • Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
  • Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Manor Lakes - Quandong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/213051579/manor-lakes-quandong/topic/transport