2.8% ▲ —
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Cardinia · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Cardinia
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost no one can reach another person within 45 minutes using public transport in Cardinia. This makes the area heavily reliant on cars, with the vast majority of homes owning multiple vehicles to get around. While some residents work from home, most still depend on driving for their daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are essential here, as 86% of homes have two or more vehicles. Only 2.8% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well below the national average of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Cardinia splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (32%) and 3 vehicles (27%), with 4 or more at 27%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Nearly half of workers drive to their jobs, while 24.1% work from home, which is well above the Australian figure of 21%. Only 2.1% of people commute using public transport.
24.1% ▲ +85.1%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 24.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.1% ▲ +3.0%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.1%
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.
Public transport is virtually non-existent in the area, with zero stops and zero routes. This puts Cardinia far below the Victorian average for service availability.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
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).
0
Lower than 99% 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 the city takes about 42 minutes by car. However, the walk to the nearest transport stop is among the highest in the region, taking around 74 minutes.
74
Higher than 93% 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.
42
Lower than 66% 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).
More for Cardinia
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Cardinia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20487/cardinia/topic/transport