12.8% ▼ -16.3%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.3%
- 2016: 13.9%
- 2021: 12.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Carnegie · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Carnegie
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 40% of people working from home in Carnegie is a far higher rate than across Victoria and Australia. This reliance on home-based work is mirrored by a strong lean away from cars, with far more households living without a motor vehicle compared to the national figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 12.8% of homes here have no motor vehicle, which is well above the state and national figures. Most households have just one car, while 28.3% own two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Carnegie, 1 vehicle is the majority at 51%; 2 vehicles is next at 28%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here at 39.7%, which is far above the national figure. Public transport use for commuting is also among the highest for similar areas, at 6.3%.
39.7% ▲ +1132.5%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 39.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
6.3% ▼ -69.5%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.7%
- 2016: 22.4%
- 2021: 6.3%
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 highly accessible with 64 stops and 10 routes, making this one of the largest networks for an area of this size. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are much higher than most other areas.
64
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.57
Higher than 72% 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).
1,339.3
Higher than 88% 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).
10
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
52,935
Higher than 87% 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).
286,552
Higher than 88% 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).
48
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport + walking time, in minutes, from the area to its capital city centre on a weekday morning (R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network). Blank where no scheduled service connects the area to the city.
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting into the city is quick, with a drive time of only 16 minutes. This ease of movement is supported by the fact that the walk to the nearest transport stop takes only 2 minutes, which is much lower than most areas.
2
Lower than 86% 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.
16
Lower than 87% 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 Carnegie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20498/carnegie/topic/transport