Ecklin South · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Ecklin South

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

Almost every household in Ecklin South owns a car, making private vehicles essential for daily life. The area has no public transport services, meaning residents rely entirely on their own cars or walking to get around.

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📍 Ecklin South, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home here has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the state and national figures. Most households are well-equipped, with 43.8% owning two vehicles and 28.8% owning four or more.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 5.1%
  • 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 Ecklin South, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 4 or more (28%) and 1 vehicle (17%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Nearly 20% of workers walk to their jobs, while 21.3% work from home, a figure about the same as the national average. No one here uses public transport to commute, which is well below the Australian average.

21.3% ▼ -35.4%

Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 32.9%
  • 2016: 32.8%
  • 2021: 21.3%

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.

How people get to work

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In Ecklin South, Car (driver) is the majority at 51%; Worked at home is next at 25%.

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 lack of access is far below the Victorian average, with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people.

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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).

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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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Ecklin South [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20841/ecklin-south/topic/transport