Devon North · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Devon North

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

Almost every home in Devon North has a motor vehicle, reflecting a total reliance on cars for travel. This is a remote area where it takes about 156 minutes to drive to the city, which is among the longest travel times for its level.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high here, with no homes without a vehicle. This is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%, and the most common arrangement is for households to have two vehicles.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.2%
  • 2016: 2.2%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Devon North, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 37%, followed by 4 or more (23%) and 3 vehicles (21%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most workers drive themselves to work, with 65.1% doing so. While 16.4% work from home, this is well below the 25.7% seen across Victoria, and no one here commutes using public transport.

16.4% ▲ +58.8%

Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 10.4%
  • 2016: 10.1%
  • 2021: 16.4%

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: 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 Devon North, Car (driver) is the majority at 77%; Worked at home is next at 20%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent in the area, with zero stops and routes. This means there are no weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the state figure of 1,267.9.

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The drive time to the city is 156 minutes, which is among the highest for similar areas.

156

Higher than 91% 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 Devon North [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20749/devon-north/topic/transport