1.9% ▼ -40.9%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 1.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Blackwood · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Blackwood
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost no one in Blackwood uses public transport to get to work, a stark contrast to the rest of the state. The area relies heavily on private cars and home offices to bridge the gap to the city. This is reflected in a very high rate of vehicle ownership across the community.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few households are without a car, with only 1.9% having no motor vehicle. This is well below the 7.6% figure for Victoria, as most homes here own at least one or two cars.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Blackwood, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 44%, followed by 2 vehicles (38%) and 3 vehicles (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common here, with 28.4% of people doing so—well above the national figure of 21%. This helps explain why 0% of the workforce uses public transport to commute.
28.4% ▲ +365.4%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.1%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 28.4%
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: 4.6%
- 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 serving the area. This means the number of weekly departures is 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.
It typically takes 75 minutes to drive from Blackwood to the city, a travel time that is around the middle for similar areas.
75
Higher than 53% 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 Blackwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20256/blackwood/topic/transport