Castella · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Castella

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

Almost every home in Castella has a car, making it a typical place for its area. With no public transport options available, residents rely heavily on private vehicles to get around. The typical drive to the city takes about 63 minutes.

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📍 Castella, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single household owns a motor vehicle, which is well below the state and national figures for carless homes. Over half of all homes have two or more vehicles, with 20% owning four or more.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.4%
  • 2016: 3.7%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Castella, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 4 or more (23%) and 1 vehicle (19%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work, while 23.2% of people work from home, which is a little above the national figure. No one here commutes using public transport.

23.2% ▲ +177.2%

Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 8.4%
  • 2016: 6.5%
  • 2021: 23.2%

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

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 4.3%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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.

How people get to work

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In Castella, Car (driver) is the majority at 65%; Worked at home is next at 28%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means no one can reach other people via transit within 45 minutes, a result far below the Victorian average.

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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.

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The drive time to the city is 63 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.

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 Castella [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20512/castella/topic/transport