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.
Chocolyn · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Chocolyn
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Private cars are essential for every single home in Chocolyn. No one in the area gets by without a motor vehicle, a stark contrast to the national figure where about 7% of households have none.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every home owns at least one car, with 55.2% of households owning two. This means the proportion of car-less homes is well below the Victorian average of 7.6%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Chocolyn, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 47%, followed by 1 vehicle (24%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 57.6% of residents, though 15.2% walk and another 15.2% work from home. This share of home-workers is far below the 25.7% seen across Victoria.
15.2% —
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 15.2%
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.
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 the number of weekly departures is far below the state figure 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 difficult without a car, as it takes 84 minutes to walk to the nearest stop. This is among the highest walk times for this level, and the drive to the city takes 122 minutes.
84
Higher than 99% 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.
122
Higher than 82% 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).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Chocolyn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20558/chocolyn/topic/transport