Clarkes Hill · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Clarkes Hill

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

Not a single home in Clarkes Hill is without a motor vehicle, making cars essential for daily life here. This heavy reliance on driving is clear in the way people get to work and the total lack of local public transport options.

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📍 Clarkes Hill, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home in Clarkes Hill has at least two vehicles, with 75% of households owning three or more. This is well below the Victorian and national figures for homes without a car.

Motor vehicles per home

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Clarkes Hill splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 4 or more (39%), with 3 vehicles at 22%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way people get to work, while 20% of the workforce works from home. This is a little below the national figure for remote work, and no one here commutes by public transport.

20.0%

Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 18.2%
  • 2021: 20.0%

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 Clarkes Hill, Car (driver) is the majority at 57%; Worked at home is next at 29%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent in the area, with no stops or routes available. This puts Clarkes Hill far below the Victorian average for service access.

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The typical drive time to the city is 67 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.

67

Lower than 52% 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 Clarkes Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20568/clarkes-hill/topic/transport