Boorool · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Boorool

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

Few areas at this level have as high a rate of home working as Boorool, where 40% of the workforce does not need to commute. This reliance on home-based work is common in a place where every single household owns at least two motor vehicles.

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📍 Boorool, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high, with 65% of homes having two vehicles and 30% having three or more. Not a single home in the area is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Boorool, 2 vehicles is the majority at 68%; 3 vehicles is next at 16%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is far more common here than across Australia, at 40%. Other residents mainly rely on driving or walking to get to work, and no one uses public transport for their commute.

How people get to work

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Boorool splits fairly evenly between Car (driver) (42%) and Worked at home (39%), with Walked at 19%.

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. This means there are far fewer departures per 1,000 people than 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).

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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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting into the city is a long trip, with the typical drive time taking 101 minutes, which is higher than most similar areas.

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Higher than 70% 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 Boorool [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20299/boorool/topic/transport