0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Cathcart · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Cathcart
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Three or more motor vehicles are found in over half of all households in Cathcart, highlighting a heavy reliance on cars. This rural area has very few options for getting around, with no public transport available and a long drive to the city.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in the area has at least one motor vehicle. This is well below the Victorian and national figures, with 37.1% of households owning three vehicles and 22.9% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Cathcart splits fairly evenly between 3 vehicles (34%) and 2 vehicles (32%), with 4 or more at 21%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 58.5% of residents. No one uses public transport to commute, and the 9.4% who work from home is far below the national figure of 21%.
9.4% ▼ -25.1%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.6%
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 9.4%
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: 0.0%
- 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.
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. Consequently, weekly departures are far below the state average of 1,267.9 per 1,000 people.
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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting around is challenging, with a 61-minute walk to the nearest stop, which is much higher than most areas. The drive time to the city is also much higher than most areas at 135 minutes.
61
Higher 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.
135
Higher 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)).
- Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).
More for Cathcart
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Cathcart [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20518/cathcart/topic/transport