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.
Beech Forest · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Beech Forest
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A high proportion of people now work from home in Beech Forest, where 28% of the workforce does so. This reflects a shift in how residents manage their daily travel in a remote area where public transport is non-existent.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Beech Forest has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure. Nearly half of all households own two cars, and 23.8% have three or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Beech Forest, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (34%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Almost half of workers drive to get to their jobs, while 28% work from home, a rate well above the Australian figure. No one in the area commutes using public transport.
28.0% ▲ +50.5%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.6%
- 2016: 27.9%
- 2021: 28.0%
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: 7.0%
- 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 means weekly departures per person are far below the Victorian average.
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 into the city is a long trip from here, with a typical drive time of 131 minutes, which is much higher than most areas.
131
Higher than 86% 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 Beech Forest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20185/beech-forest/topic/transport