Bunbartha · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Bunbartha

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

A drive time of 141 minutes to the city marks Bunbartha as an area far removed from the urban centre. This isolation is mirrored in how people move, with every single home in the locality owning at least one motor vehicle.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is universal here, as 0% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. More than half of all households own three or more vehicles.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Bunbartha splits fairly evenly between 3 vehicles (35%) and 2 vehicles (33%), with 4 or more at 23%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 72.6% of residents. While 14.6% work from home, this is far below the Victorian figure of 25.7%, and no one uses public transport to commute.

14.6% ▲ +88.8%

Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 7.8%
  • 2016: 9.2%
  • 2021: 14.6%

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 Bunbartha, Car (driver) is the majority at 77%; Worked at home is next at 16%.

Public transport access

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

The area has 9.58 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the state average. However, there is only one bus route, and weekly departures are far below the Victorian figure.

9.58

Higher than 87% 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).

159.7

Higher than 72% 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 around is challenging for those without a car, as it takes a typical resident 34 minutes to walk to the nearest stop, which is higher than most areas.

34

Higher than 70% 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.

141

Higher than 88% 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 Bunbartha [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20393/bunbartha/topic/transport