2.4% ▼ -37.7%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.8%
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 2.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Buninyong · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Buninyong
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Very few households in Buninyong get by without a car, with only 2.4% of homes having no motor vehicle. This is well below the 7.6% seen across Victoria. Most residents rely on their own transport to get around the area and reach work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is high here, as 43.8% of homes have two vehicles and 18% have three. This explains why so few households lack a car compared to the national figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Buninyong, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 1 vehicle (26%) and 3 vehicles (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way people get to work, with 58.9% of workers as the driver. About 20.5% work from home, which is higher than most similar areas but well below the Victoria average.
20.5% ▲ +331.0%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 20.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.0% ▼ -43.5%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 1.0%
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.
Buninyong has 18 public transport stops and 3 routes, which is more than about 82% of similar areas. However, the weekly number of departures per 1,000 people is well below the state figure.
18
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.74
Higher than 76% 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).
965.5
Higher than 86% 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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
It takes about 17 minutes to walk to the nearest transport stop. The typical drive time to the city is 79 minutes, which is around the middle for its level.
17
Higher than 56% 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.
79
Higher than 56% 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 Buninyong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20409/buninyong/topic/transport