0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Dixons Creek · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Dixons Creek
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Not a single home in Dixons Creek is without a motor vehicle, making it much more reliant on cars than the national average. This total dependence on private transport is reflected in the local commute, where 46.6% of workers drive themselves and no one uses public transport to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 42.4% of homes having two vehicles and 22% owning four or more. This is far above the Victorian and national figures, where about 7% of households have no car at all.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Dixons Creek, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (22%) and 4 or more (21%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common for a quarter of the local workforce, which is well above the Australian figure. Other than driving or working from home, 7.4% of people walk to their jobs.
25.0% ▲ +54.3%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.2%
- 2016: 16.2%
- 2021: 25.0%
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.
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, routes, or departures per 1,000 people. This is far below the Victorian average and means no one can reach other people via transit within 45 minutes.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
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.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
It takes typically 54 minutes to drive from Dixons Creek to the city, a travel time that is around the middle for similar areas.
54
Lower than 59% 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 Dixons Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20762/dixons-creek/topic/transport