0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Buchan South · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Buchan South
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car ownership remains essential in Buchan South, where every single home has at least one motor vehicle. This reliance on private transport is clear, as no one uses public transport to get to work and a quarter of the workforce now operates from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households here own multiple cars, with 42.2% having two and 31.2% owning three or more. The fact that 0% of homes are without a vehicle is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Buchan South, 2 vehicles is the majority at 53%; 3 vehicles is next at 19%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Half of the workforce drives to work, while 25.0% work from home, a figure well above the Australian average of 21.0%. No one in the area uses public transport for their daily commute.
25.0% —
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 27.3%
- 2021: 25.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 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.
While the area has more stops per person than the state average, the service is very infrequent. With only one bus route and two stops, weekly departures are far below the Victorian figure.
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.
19.61
Higher than 92% 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).
39.2
Higher than 62% 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).
1
Higher than 71% 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Buchan South [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20367/buchan-south/topic/transport