Benambra · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Benambra

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

A complete reliance on private cars and home offices defines daily travel in Benambra. With no public transport options and a very high rate of people working from home, most residents avoid commuting altogether or drive their own vehicles.

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📍 Benambra, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Almost every household here owns a car, with 17.3% having four or more vehicles. Only 6.7% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is about the same as the national figure.

6.7% ▲ —

Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 6.7%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Benambra splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (29%) and 2 vehicles (26%), with 3 vehicles at 22%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is very common here, at 27.4%, which is well above the Australian figure. The remaining workforce mostly drives, as 0.0% of residents use public transport to get to work.

27.4% ▲ +60.8%

Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 17.0%
  • 2016: 18.7%
  • 2021: 27.4%

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.

How people get to work

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In Benambra, Car (driver) is the majority at 62%; Worked at home is next at 31%.

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 puts Benambra far below the Victorian average for transit access and weekly departures.

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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Benambra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20205/benambra/topic/transport