Clydesdale · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Clydesdale

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

Far fewer people without a car live in Clydesdale than the national figure, as every single home in the area owns at least one motor vehicle. This total reliance on cars is a key feature of the area, which sits far from the city and lacks public transport options.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home here has a vehicle, which is well below the 7.4% of Australian households without one. More than half of all homes own two or more vehicles, with 18.5% having four or more.

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 Clydesdale, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 34%, followed by 3 vehicles (28%) and 2 vehicles (21%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Over half of workers drive to work and 20.8% work from home, a figure about the same as the national average. No one in the area commutes using public transport.

20.8%

Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 20.0%
  • 2021: 20.8%

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 Clydesdale, Car (driver) is the majority at 62%; Worked at home is next at 24%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent here, with no routes or stops available. This is far below the Victorian average for transport access per person.

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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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting around is difficult without a car, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 56 minutes. This is much higher than most similar areas, and the drive to the city takes 90 minutes.

56

Higher than 83% 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.

90

Higher than 63% 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 Clydesdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20584/clydesdale/topic/transport