Durham Ox · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Durham Ox

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

More than half of the workforce in Durham Ox works from home, which is far above the national figure. This reliance on home-based work is a key feature of the area, where almost every household owns at least one motor vehicle.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high here, with 0% of homes lacking a motor vehicle. This is well below the Victorian rate of 7.6% and the national figure of 7.4%.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Durham Ox, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 3 vehicles (32%) and 1 vehicle (16%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common for 55.9% of residents, which is far above the Victorian average of 25.7%. No one in the area commutes using public transport.

55.9%

Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 20.5%
  • 2021: 55.9%

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

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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 Durham Ox, Worked at home is the majority at 56%; Car (driver) is next at 44%.

Public transport access

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

While there are 16.67 public transport stops per 1,000 people, the number of weekly departures is far below the Victorian average. All available public transport is provided by bus.

16.67

Higher than 91% 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).

266.7

Higher than 74% 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 typical walk to the nearest public transport stop takes about 13 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.

13

Higher than 50% 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 Durham Ox [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20817/durham-ox/topic/transport