0.6% ▲ +5.0%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Botanic Ridge · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Botanic Ridge
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer than 1% of homes lack a car in Botanic Ridge, making it much more dependent on private vehicles than the state and national averages. While it has more transport stops than many similar areas, the community relies heavily on cars for daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every home here owns a car, with 57.3% having two vehicles and 17.1% having three. Only 0.6% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the 7.6% seen across Victoria.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Botanic Ridge, 2 vehicles is the majority at 57%; 3 vehicles is next at 17%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most workers drive, as 61.6% travel by car as the driver. Working from home is common for 19.9% of the workforce, while only 0.7% use public transport to get to work.
19.9% ▲ +574.1%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 19.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▼ -70.1%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 0.7%
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.
Public transport is provided entirely by buses, with 13 stops and 2 routes serving the area. Despite these stops, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Victorian figure.
13
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.93
Higher than 65% 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).
279.4
Higher than 74% 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.
Getting to the city takes about 40 minutes by car, which is faster than in most similar areas. Residents live very close to transit, with a typical one-minute walk to the nearest stop.
1
Lower 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.
40
Lower than 67% 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 Botanic Ridge [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20307/botanic-ridge/topic/transport