0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.6%
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Barmah · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Barmah
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Every single home in Barmah has at least one motor vehicle, making cars essential for daily life. While the area has more transport stops per person than most similar places, the actual number of services remains very low.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is universal here, with 42.5% of homes owning two vehicles. This is well below the state and national figures for homes without a car, which both sit around 7% to 8%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Barmah, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Nearly half of workers drive to work, while 20.5% work from home. No one in the area uses public transport to commute, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%.
20.5% ▲ —
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 20.5%
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.
Barmah has 8.73 stops per 1,000 people, far above the Victorian average. However, these two bus routes provide very few services, with weekly departures far below the state figure.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
8.73
Higher than 87% 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).
126.6
Higher than 71% 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).
2
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Barmah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20144/barmah/topic/transport