0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Barrabool · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Barrabool
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero homes without a car makes Barrabool a place where vehicle ownership is absolute. This total reliance on cars is reflected in the lack of public transport and long travel times to the city.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every home here has multiple cars, with 93.6% of households owning two or more vehicles. This is much lower than the 7.6% of Victorian homes that have no motor vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Barrabool, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 3 vehicles (29%) and 4 or more (26%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way people get to work, though 23.6% work from home, which is a little above the national figure. No one here commutes using public transport.
23.6% ▲ +136.2%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 23.6%
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. This is far below the Victorian average of 4.41 stops per 1,000 people.
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.
It takes 56 minutes to drive to the city, which is around the middle for similar areas. The walk to the nearest transport stop is among the highest at this level, taking 82 minutes.
82
Higher than 98% 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.
56
Lower than 58% 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 Barrabool [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20151/barrabool/topic/transport