1.9% ▼ -45.5%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 1.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Blairgowrie · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Blairgowrie
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost half of all homes in Blairgowrie have two motor vehicles, highlighting a strong reliance on cars. This is a place where the typical resident depends on their own transport, though a very large number of people now work from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few households get by without a car, with only 1.9% having no vehicle. This is well below the 7.6% figure for Victoria and the 7.4% national rate.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Blairgowrie, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 49%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common here, with 32.5% of the workforce doing so, which is far above the Australian average of 21.0%. Only 0.5% of people commute using public transport, a figure slightly below the state and national levels.
32.5% ▲ +281.4%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.5%
- 2016: 9.6%
- 2021: 32.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▼ -72.8%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.5%
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.
Blairgowrie has 34 public transport stops and two bus routes, which are among the highest numbers for similar areas. Despite this, no people are reachable within 45 minutes by transit.
34
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
12.20
Higher than 88% 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).
1,531.6
Higher than 89% 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).
2
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
It takes about 72 minutes to drive to the city. However, the walk to the nearest transport stop is only 6 minutes, which is shorter than in most areas.
6
Lower than 64% 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.
72
Higher than 52% 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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- 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 Blairgowrie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20257/blairgowrie/topic/transport