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.
Barfold · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Barfold
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A striking 34.5% of workers in Barfold work from home, a figure far above the national average. This reliance on home-based work is consistent with a local environment where every single household owns at least one motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
No home in the area is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the state and national figures. Most households are well-equipped, with 41.9% owning two vehicles and 22.6% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Barfold, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 4 or more (24%) and 1 vehicle (17%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
While 5.5% of people use public transport to commute—a little above the Victorian average—the most common way to get to work is by driving, which 40% of residents do.
34.5% —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.8%
- 2021: 34.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
5.5% —
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 5.5%
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 virtually non-existent here, with no routes or stops available. This leaves the area far below the Victorian average for transport access per person.
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.
The typical drive to the city takes 77 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.
77
Higher than 55% 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 Barfold [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20137/barfold/topic/transport