Aireys Inlet · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Aireys Inlet

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

Far more people work from home in Aireys Inlet than in most similar areas, with 38.3% of the workforce doing so. This reliance on home offices is mirrored in the local transport patterns, where cars are the primary way to get around and public transport is rarely used.

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📍 Aireys Inlet, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Almost every home in Aireys Inlet has a car, with only 2.3% of households without one. This is well below the 7.6% seen across Victoria.

2.3% ▼ -57.1%

Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 5.4%
  • 2016: 1.3%
  • 2021: 2.3%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Aireys Inlet splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (43%) and 2 vehicles (39%), with 3 vehicles at 9%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is very common here at 38.3%, which is far above the national figure of 21%. Meanwhile, no one in the area uses public transport to get to work, a rate well below the Australian average.

38.3% ▲ +220.7%

Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 11.9%
  • 2016: 8.0%
  • 2021: 38.3%

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: 1.9%
  • 2016: 1.7%
  • 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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Aireys Inlet splits fairly evenly between Car (driver) (47%) and Worked at home (46%), with Walked at 4%.

Public transport access

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

The area has four public transport stops, all for buses, which is more than about 76% of similar areas. However, weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the Victorian average.

4.09

Higher than 74% 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).

245.1

Higher than 74% 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 into the city takes a long time, with a typical drive of 136 minutes. Walking to the nearest transport stop is also much slower than in most areas, taking 59 minutes.

59

Higher than 85% 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.

136

Higher than 87% 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 Aireys Inlet [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20013/aireys-inlet/topic/transport