0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Boolarra South · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Boolarra South
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A complete lack of households without a car marks the transport landscape in Boolarra South. This rural area relies heavily on private vehicles, with no residents using public transport to get to work and almost 30% working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in the area has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian and national figures. More than half of all households own three or more vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Boolarra South splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (28%) and 4 or more (26%), with 3 vehicles at 24%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here at 29.9%, a figure well above the national average. The remaining workforce relies almost entirely on cars, as 0.0% of residents commute by public transport.
29.9% ▼ -10.4%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.3%
- 2016: 31.5%
- 2021: 29.9%
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.
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. Consequently, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Victorian figure.
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 is slow and difficult, with a 119-minute drive to the city. This isolation is reflected in the walk to the nearest transport stop, which takes 84 minutes.
84
Higher than 99% 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.
119
Higher than 80% 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 Boolarra South [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20289/boolarra-south/topic/transport