Adams Estate · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Adams Estate

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

Every single home in Adams Estate has a motor vehicle, making it far more car-dependent than the national average. This reliance on cars is reflected in how residents move, with 100% of workers commuting by car and no one working from home.

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📍 Adams Estate, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Almost all households own multiple cars, with 48.1% having two and 44.4% having three. This explains why 0.0% of homes lack a vehicle, a figure well below the 7.4% national average.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Adams Estate, 2 vehicles is the majority at 52%; 3 vehicles is next at 48%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Getting to work is done entirely by car, with 81.5% driving and 18.5% travelling as passengers. No one in the area works from home, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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 Adams Estate, Car (driver) is the majority at 81%; Car (passenger) is next at 19%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent here, with zero stops and zero routes. This means the area has far fewer services than the Victorian average.

0.00

Lower than 99% 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).

0.0

Lower than 99% 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.

A typical trip to the city takes 71 minutes by car. The nearest public transport stop is a 16-minute walk away.

16

Higher than 54% 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.

71

Higher than 51% of suburb / locality 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)).
  • 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 Adams Estate [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20007/adams-estate/topic/transport