0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Barwon Downs · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Barwon Downs
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car ownership has remained essential in Barwon Downs, where not a single home is without a motor vehicle. This reliance on private transport is mirrored in the commute, with more than half of workers driving to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every household in Barwon Downs owns at least one motor vehicle, a figure well below the 7.6% of Victorian homes without one. Most homes have two or three vehicles, with 33.9% owning two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Barwon Downs splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (35%) and 1 vehicle (31%), with 3 vehicles at 24%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common here, with 27.4% of people doing so, which is well above the national figure of 21.0%. Other workers rely almost entirely on cars, as 0.0% use public transport to get to work.
27.4% ▲ +9.0%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.1%
- 2016: 33.8%
- 2021: 27.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 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 14.71 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the Victorian average of 4.41. However, the 29.4 weekly departures per 1,000 people is 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.
14.71
Higher than 90% 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).
29.4
Higher than 60% 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.
Reaching the city is a significant journey from Barwon Downs, with a typical drive time of 220 minutes.
220
Higher than 99% 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 Barwon Downs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20161/barwon-downs/topic/transport