Dadswells Bridge · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Dadswells Bridge

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

Nearly 40% of workers in Dadswells Bridge work from home, which is a far higher proportion than the national figure. This is a car-dependent area where every single household owns at least one motor vehicle. While public transport exists, it is rarely used for the daily commute.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home here has a car, which is well below the Victorian and national figures for households without a vehicle. Most families have multiple cars, with 89.6% of homes owning two 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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Dadswells Bridge splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (31%) and 3 vehicles (28%), with 4 or more at 22%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is very common here at 39.5%, far above the figures for Victoria and Australia. No one uses public transport to get to work, with others primarily driving or walking.

39.5%

Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 36.1%
  • 2021: 39.5%

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 Dadswells Bridge, the largest group is Worked at home at 48%, followed by Car (driver) (42%) and Walked (10%).

Public transport access

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

There are 28.99 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the state average. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is well below the Victorian figure.

28.99

Higher than 97% 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).

942.0

Higher than 86% 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 to the nearest public transport stop takes longer here than in most similar areas, with a typical walk of 29 minutes.

29

Higher than 66% 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.

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 Dadswells Bridge [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20699/dadswells-bridge/topic/transport