Dewhurst · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Dewhurst

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

Very few people rely on public transport in Dewhurst, where 38.5% of the workforce now works from home. This reliance on private travel is clear as every single household in the area owns at least one motor vehicle.

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📍 Dewhurst, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Cars are essential here, with 34% of homes owning four or more vehicles. No households in Dewhurst are without a car, which is well below the 7.6% figure for Victoria.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

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

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Dewhurst splits fairly evenly between 4 or more (30%) and 2 vehicles (27%), with 3 vehicles at 25%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is far more common here than in the rest of Australia, at 38.5%. For those who do travel, the car is the only option, as 0% of the workforce commutes by public transport.

38.5% ▲ +176.2%

Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 13.9%
  • 2016: 7.9%
  • 2021: 38.5%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.8%
  • 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 Dewhurst, Car (driver) is the majority at 52%; Worked at home is next at 48%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is virtually non-existent in the area, with zero stops or routes available. This is far below the Victorian average of 4.41 stops per 1,000 people.

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.

How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting around requires a car, as the walk to the nearest transport stop takes 61 minutes. This is much higher than in most other similar areas.

61

Higher than 86% 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.

46

Lower than 64% 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)).
  • Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
  • 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 Dewhurst [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20750/dewhurst/topic/transport