2.3% ▲ +5.3%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 2.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Apsley · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Apsley
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every home in Apsley relies on a car to get around, with only 2.3% of households having no motor vehicle. This heavy dependence on driving is a key part of daily life here, as public transport is very limited and the typical resident spends most of their time traveling by road or working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are essential here, as only 2.3% of homes lack a vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households own multiple cars, with 33.3% having two vehicles and another 34.8% owning three or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Apsley splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (34%) and 1 vehicle (29%), with 3 vehicles at 19%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one in Apsley uses public transport to get to work. Instead, 57.1% of workers drive and 23.1% work from home, a figure that is a little above the Australian average of 21%.
23.1% ▲ +20.1%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.3%
- 2016: 17.9%
- 2021: 23.1%
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.
Public transport is sparse, with only one bus route and one stop serving the area. While this is more than many similar areas, the 30.4 weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Victorian average of 1,267.9.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.04
Higher than 70% 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).
30.4
Higher than 61% 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).
1
Higher than 71% 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.
Getting to the nearest transport stop typically takes 8 minutes on foot, which is around the middle for similar areas.
8
Lower than 57% 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 Apsley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20052/apsley/topic/transport