9.7% ▲ +11.3%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 9.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Dinner Plain · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Dinner Plain
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A long 45-minute walk to the nearest stop defines the daily commute in Dinner Plain, where residents rely heavily on their own means of travel. While public transport infrastructure exists, it is rarely used for work, and most people either walk or drive to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost 10% of homes here have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas and a little above the Victorian figure of 7.6%. For those who do own cars, 35.5% of homes have one vehicle and 32.3% have two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Dinner Plain splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (34%), with 3 vehicles at 17%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one uses public transport to get to work, a figure well below the national average of 3.1%. Instead, 33.7% of workers walk to their jobs, while 18.5% drive and another 18.5% work from home.
18.5% ▲ +368.1%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 18.5%
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: 9.2%
- 2016: 16.8%
- 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.
There are 7.81 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the Victorian figure of 4.41. However, the number of weekly departures is far below the state average, with only a single bus route serving the area.
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.
7.81
Higher than 86% 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).
93.8
Higher than 68% 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.
Walking to the nearest transport stop takes about 45 minutes, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
45
Higher than 77% 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 Dinner Plain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20760/dinner-plain/topic/transport