Chintin · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Chintin

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

Zero homes without a car is the striking reality for Chintin, where every single household owns at least two vehicles. This total reliance on cars is matched by a lack of public transport and a long 50-minute drive to the city.

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📍 Chintin, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every household in the area owns multiple vehicles, with 53.6% having two and 39.3% having three. This means the percentage of homes without a car is 0.0%, which is well below the Victorian and national figures.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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 Chintin, 2 vehicles is the majority at 52%; 3 vehicles is next at 38%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

About 26.4% of people work from home, a rate much higher than most similar areas and well above the national figure. For those who do travel, 47.2% drive and 11.3% walk, while no one uses public transport to get to work.

26.4%

Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 7.4%
  • 2021: 26.4%

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

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Chintin, Car (driver) is the majority at 56%; Worked at home is next at 31%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is completely absent here, with no stops or routes serving the area. This leaves the number of weekly departures and people reachable by transit at zero, which is far below the Victorian average.

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.

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.

It takes 50 minutes to drive from Chintin to the city, a travel time that is lower than most similar areas.

50

Lower than 62% 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 Chintin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20555/chintin/topic/transport