2.9% ▲ +89.7%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 2.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Eastwood · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Eastwood
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero people use public transport to get to work in Eastwood (Vic.). This highlights a heavy reliance on cars in a place where almost every home owns at least one motor vehicle. While some public transport is available, it is rarely used for the daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are essential here, with 40.4% of homes owning two vehicles and only 2.9% of households without one. This rate of car-less homes is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Eastwood splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 70% of workers as the driver. Only 9.1% work from home, which is far below the 21% national figure.
9.1% ▲ +143.4%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 9.1%
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: 0.3%
- 2016: 0.6%
- 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.
The area has four public transport stops, all served by buses. However, weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the Victorian average, sitting at just 28.
4
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.40
Higher than 63% 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).
28.0
Higher than 60% 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.
It takes about 10 minutes to walk to the nearest stop, which is around the middle for similar areas.
10
Lower than 54% 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 Eastwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20836/eastwood/topic/transport