1.2% ▼ -53.8%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 1.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bolwarra · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Bolwarra
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A 69-minute walk to the nearest stop defines the isolation of Bolwarra, where private cars are essential. Almost every home owns at least one vehicle, and the vast majority of workers rely on driving to get to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 79.6% of homes owning two or more vehicles. Only 1.2% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Bolwarra, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 3 vehicles (20%) and 4 or more (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 68.5% of people being the driver. Very few people work from home at 7.5%, a figure far below the Australian average of 21.0%, and no one uses public transport for their commute.
7.5% ▲ +43.2%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 7.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
There are no public transport routes or stops in the area. This puts Bolwarra far below the Victorian average of 4.41 stops per 1,000 people.
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 around without a car is difficult, as the walk to the nearest public transport stop takes 69 minutes, which is much higher than most similar areas.
69
Higher than 90% 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.
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 Bolwarra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20274/bolwarra/topic/transport