Moonee Beach · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Moonee Beach

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

Only 1.4% of homes in Moonee Beach have no motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average. This makes the area heavily reliant on cars for daily travel. Almost everyone depends on their own transport to get around the local landscape.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes here have multiple cars, with 48.2% owning two and 17.6% owning three. This high level of ownership is consistent with only 1.4% of households being without a vehicle.

1.4% ▼ -53.9%

Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.0%
  • 2016: 1.5%
  • 2021: 1.4%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Moonee Beach, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 48%, followed by 1 vehicle (22%) and 3 vehicles (18%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Not a single person in Moonee Beach commutes by public transport. Instead, 68% of workers drive themselves to work, while 14.3% work from home, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 31%.

14.3% ▲ +126.4%

Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 6.3%
  • 2016: 7.4%
  • 2021: 14.3%

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

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.4%
  • 2016: 0.3%
  • 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 Moonee Beach, Car (driver) is the majority at 77%; Worked at home is next at 16%.

Public transport access

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

The area has 5 public transport stops and one bus route, which is more than many similar areas. However, the weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the state average.

2.30

Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.

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

196.2

Higher than 73% of suburb / locality 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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting to the nearest transit stop takes a typical resident 21 minutes on foot, which is longer than in most similar areas.

21

Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.

Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.

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)).
  • Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Moonee Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12714/moonee-beach/topic/transport