4.1% ▼ -41.4%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bright · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Bright
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly half of all working residents in Bright drive themselves to work. This reliance on cars is reflected in the high rate of vehicle ownership, though 20.6% of the workforce now works from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have at least one car, and 37.5% have two. Only 4.1% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Bright splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (40%) and 2 vehicles (38%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking to work is common for 10.6% of residents, while only 0.2% use public transport. This figure is a little below both the state and national averages.
20.6% ▲ +143.5%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.5%
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 20.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -27.5%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.3%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.2%
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.
Bus services are the only form of public transport here, with two stops and three routes. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the Victorian average.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.76
Higher than 60% 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).
21.4
Higher than 60% 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).
3
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Bright [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20336/bright/topic/transport