0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Alma · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Alma
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost 38% of households in Alma own two motor vehicles, making cars the essential way to get around. This is a car-dependent area where every single home has at least one vehicle, and there is no public transport available for residents.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
No home in Alma is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%. Most families have multiple cars, with 28% of homes owning three and 17.6% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Alma, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 36%, followed by 3 vehicles (26%) and 1 vehicle (22%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Cars are the primary way to get to work, with 76.6% of people driving themselves. No one in the area works from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.8%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 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.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
There are no public transport stops or routes in Alma. This means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure far below the Victorian average of 1,268.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Accessing services takes significant time, as it is a 60-minute walk to the nearest stop. Driving to the city takes 121 minutes, which is much higher than most areas.
60
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.
121
Higher than 81% 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 Alma [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20031/alma/topic/transport