Bolinda · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Bolinda

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

Not a single home in Bolinda is without a motor vehicle, making it a place entirely dependent on cars. This reliance is clear as 35.8% of the workforce works from home, a figure far above the national average of 21%.

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📍 Bolinda, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households have multiple cars, with 89.7% owning two or more vehicles. This is reflected in the fact that no homes in the area are without a motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Bolinda splits fairly evenly between 3 vehicles (30%) and 2 vehicles (29%), with 4 or more at 29%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is very common here, with 35.8% of workers doing so, which is far above the national figure. No one in the area uses public transport to get to work, as 61% of commuters travel by car.

35.8%

Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 13.6%
  • 2021: 35.8%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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 Bolinda, Car (driver) is the majority at 54%; Worked at home is next at 37%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport is effectively non-existent in Bolinda, with zero stops and zero routes available. This means no one in the area can reach other people via transit within 45 minutes, and the number of stops is far below the Victorian average.

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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.

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

It takes about 46 minutes to drive to the city, which is lower than in most similar areas. However, walking to the nearest transport stop would take 54 minutes, a time that is much higher than most other areas.

54

Higher than 82% 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.

46

Lower than 64% 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 Bolinda [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20272/bolinda/topic/transport