8.4% —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Capel Sound · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Capel Sound
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Reliance on cars defines daily life in Capel Sound, where 61.3% of workers drive themselves to work. While the area has a high number of transport stops, very few people actually use public transit for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have one or two cars, though 8.4% of households have no motor vehicle. This is much higher than most similar areas and slightly above the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Capel Sound, 1 vehicle is the majority at 52%; 2 vehicles is next at 30%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here than in the rest of Victoria, with only 12.1% of people doing so. Very few residents use public transport to get to work, at just 0.2%.
12.1% —
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% —
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
The area has a high number of bus stops and routes, far above the Victorian average. However, this does not translate to connectivity, as no people are reachable within 45 minutes by transit.
38
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
7.24
Higher than 86% 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).
827.7
Higher than 84% 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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to a transport stop is very easy, with a typical walk of only 3 minutes. From there, the drive time to the city is 63 minutes, which is about average for this level.
3
Lower than 79% 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.
63
Lower than 54% 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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- 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 Capel Sound [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20476/capel-sound/topic/transport