0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Fairhaven · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Fairhaven
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A massive 40.5% of the workforce in Fairhaven works from home, a figure far above the national average. This reflects a community where most people avoid a daily commute, though the area remains heavily reliant on private cars for other travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Not a single home in Fairhaven is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian and national figures. Nearly half of all households own two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Fairhaven, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 49%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here, with 40.5% of people doing so, which is far above the 21.0% national figure. No one in the area commutes to work using public transport.
40.5% ▲ +364.2%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 40.5%
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: 2.2%
- 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.
Fairhaven has more transport stops and routes than most similar areas, though the number of weekly departures is far below the state average. All available public transport is provided by buses.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.13
Higher than 78% 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).
307.7
Higher than 75% 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).
2
Higher than 75% 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 around on foot or by car takes time, as the walk to the nearest stop is 24 minutes and the drive to the city takes 96 minutes.
24
Higher than 62% 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.
96
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.
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 Fairhaven [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20902/fairhaven/topic/transport