4.2% ▼ -36.8%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.6%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
East Sale · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in East Sale
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 60% of workers in East Sale walk to their jobs, making it a place where commuting patterns differ sharply from the rest of the country. While very few people work from home here, the area remains heavily reliant on local travel and private transport.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
The most common motor vehicles per home is 2 vehicles at 63%, ahead of No vehicle (0%).
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In East Sale, 2 vehicles is the majority at 100%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking is the primary way to get to work for 59.4% of people. Only 4.2% work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21.0% and the Victorian figure of 25.7%.
2.1% ▲ —
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.1%
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 no public transport stops or routes in the area. This puts the local level of service far below the Victorian average of 4.41 stops per 1,000 people.
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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to a transit stop is difficult here, with a typical walk of 68 minutes, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
68
Higher than 90% 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 East Sale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20831/east-sale/topic/transport