42.3% —
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
Colbrook · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Colbrook
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A massive 42.3% of workers in Colbrook work from home, a figure far above both the Victorian and national averages. This high rate of remote work is a defining feature for the area, where almost no one uses public transport to get to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
The most common motor vehicles per home is 3 vehicles at 63%, ahead of 2 vehicles (56%).
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Colbrook, 3 vehicles is the majority at 53%; 2 vehicles is next at 47%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Half of the workforce drive to work, while 42.3% work from home, a proportion far above the national figure of 21%. This explains why 0% of residents use public transport for their daily commute.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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, which is far below the Victorian average of 4.4 stops 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.
The drive time to the city is 61 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.
61
Lower than 55% 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 Colbrook
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Colbrook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20612/colbrook/topic/transport