0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Faraday · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Faraday
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Every single home in Faraday has at least one motor vehicle, making it an area where car ownership is universal. This reliance on cars is clear, as the town has no public transport stops or routes and a typical drive to the city takes 75 minutes.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own multiple cars, with 82.9% of homes having two or more vehicles. This is far below the Victorian and national figures for homes without a car, which both sit around 7%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Faraday, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 36%, followed by 3 vehicles (29%) and 4 or more (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here, at 29.5%, which is well above the national figure of 21%. For those who do leave for work, the vast majority drive, while 0.0% use public transport.
29.5% ▲ +87.6%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.7%
- 2016: 11.0%
- 2021: 29.5%
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: 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 puts Faraday far below the Victorian average for both the number of stops and weekly departures 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.
The typical drive time from Faraday to the city is 75 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.
75
Higher than 53% 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).
More for Faraday
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Faraday [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20907/faraday/topic/transport