Buln Buln East · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Buln Buln East

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

A total absence of car-less homes defines Buln Buln East, where every single household owns at least one motor vehicle. This reliance on private transport is stark, as the area has far fewer car-free homes than the state and national figures.

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📍 Buln Buln East, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households here own multiple cars, with 38.1% having two and 34.9% having three. This high level of ownership is reflected in the fact that 0.0% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%.

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.

Motor vehicles per home

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Buln Buln East splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 3 vehicles (34%), with 4 or more at 18%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is very common here, with 31.7% of people doing so—a figure far above the Australian average of 21.0%. Conversely, no one in the area commutes using public transport.

31.7% ▲ +134.0%

Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 13.5%
  • 2016: 14.1%
  • 2021: 31.7%

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.

How people get to work

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In Buln Buln East, Car (driver) is the majority at 58%; Worked at home is next at 38%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport is non-existent in the area, with zero stops and routes available. This puts the local access far below the Victorian average of 4.41 stops per 1,000 people.

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The typical drive time to the city is 80 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.

80

Higher than 57% 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 Buln Buln East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20391/buln-buln-east/topic/transport