Craigie · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Craigie

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

Very few things have changed in how people move around Craigie, but the area remains heavily reliant on cars. Every single home in the locality has at least one motor vehicle, as there is no public transport available in the area.

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📍 Craigie, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home here owns a car, which is well below the national figure of 7.4% for households without one. More than 70% of households have three or more vehicles.

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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Craigie splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (33%) and 3 vehicles (30%), with 1 vehicle at 19%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 70.6% of residents. Only 11.8% work from home, which is far below the Victorian figure of 25.7%.

11.8%

Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 12.5%
  • 2021: 11.8%

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 Craigie, Car (driver) is the majority at 86%; Worked at home is next at 14%.

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 service levels are far below the Victorian average.

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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.

The area is quite isolated, with a typical 110-minute drive to the city. It would take about 72 minutes to walk to the nearest transport stop.

72

Higher than 92% 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.

110

Higher than 75% 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 Craigie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20660/craigie/topic/transport