6.6% ▲ +127.5%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Eskdale · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Eskdale
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero public transport options mean that Eskdale relies almost entirely on private cars for daily travel. While most households own several vehicles, a small number of people have no motor vehicle at all, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 41% of homes have two cars, and 28% have three, though 6.6% of households have no motor vehicle. This lack of a car is more common here than in most similar areas, despite being slightly below the state figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Eskdale, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 3 vehicles (26%) and 1 vehicle (17%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Nearly 65% of workers drive themselves to work, and 12% work from home. This share of home workers is far below the Victorian figure of 25.7%, while no one here commutes using public transport.
11.7% ▼ -40.3%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.6%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 11.7%
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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means departures per 1,000 people are far below the Victorian average of 1,268.
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).
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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Eskdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20883/eskdale/topic/transport