3.1% ▲ +130.8%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 3.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Derrinallum · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Derrinallum
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over half of working residents in Derrinallum drive themselves to work, reflecting a heavy reliance on cars in this rural area. Only 3.1% of homes lack a motor vehicle, a figure well below the Victorian and national averages.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households here have multiple cars, with 65.8% owning three or more. This high car ownership means far fewer homes are without a vehicle compared to the national figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Derrinallum splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (35%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, though 20.8% of people work from home, which is about the same as the Australian average. No one here commutes using public transport.
20.8% ▼ -16.8%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 22.3%
- 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.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is limited to a single bus route. With only 25.9 weekly departures per 1,000 people, service levels are far below the Victorian average.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.59
Higher than 68% 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).
25.9
Higher than 60% 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).
1
Higher than 71% 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.
Getting around is challenging, as the typical walk to the nearest stop takes 54 minutes. This is much higher than in most other areas, and the drive to the city takes 118 minutes.
54
Higher than 82% 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.
118
Higher than 79% 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 Derrinallum [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20745/derrinallum/topic/transport