Cardigan Village · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Cardigan Village

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

Every single home in Cardigan Village now has a motor vehicle, marking a total reliance on cars for this area. With no public transport routes serving the village, residents depend almost entirely on private driving to get around and reach work.

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📍 Cardigan Village, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high here, with 44.9% of homes owning two vehicles and 16.4% having four or more. This explains why the 0.0% of homes without a car is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

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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In Cardigan Village, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 3 vehicles (25%) and 4 or more (16%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most people drive to work, with 63.8% as the driver. Those working from home make up 15.8% of the workforce, which is well below the Victorian average of 25.7%.

15.8% ▲ +263.2%

Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 4.3%
  • 2016: 3.8%
  • 2021: 15.8%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.6% ▲ —

Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 1.0%
  • 2021: 0.6%

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 Cardigan Village, Car (driver) is the majority at 76%; Worked at home is next at 19%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent in the village, with zero routes and stops. This puts the area far below the Victorian average for transport access.

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.

Getting into the city is a long trip, taking typically 84 minutes. A walk to the nearest transport stop takes about 15 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.

15

Higher than 53% 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.

84

Higher than 59% 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 Cardigan Village [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20486/cardigan-village/topic/transport