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.
Ascot · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Ascot
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost half of the workforce in Ascot now works from home, a shift that reflects the area's heavy reliance on private cars. With no public transport available and a typical commute to the city taking 84 minutes, residents here are far more dependent on their own vehicles than people in the rest of the state.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is universal in Ascot, where 0% of homes are without a motor vehicle. This is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%, and nearly 44% of households own four or more vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Ascot, the largest group is 4 or more at 36%, followed by 1 vehicle (30%) and 3 vehicles (24%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here, at 47.2%, which is far above the national figure of 21%. No one uses public transport to get to work, while 32.1% of residents drive themselves.
47.2% ▲ +124.7%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.0%
- 2016: 46.9%
- 2021: 47.2%
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 the area. Consequently, weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the Victorian average of 1,267.9.
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.
Getting around without a car is difficult, with the walk to the nearest stop taking 88 minutes. This is among the highest times for this level of area.
88
Higher than 99% 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.
84
Higher than 59% 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 Ascot [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20073/ascot/topic/transport