0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Fern Hill · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Fern Hill
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every home in Fern Hill has at least one car, with nearly half of households owning two. This reliance on private vehicles is a defining feature of the area, which lacks any public transport services and is largely dependent on driving for daily needs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 46.2% of homes having two vehicles and 30.8% having three. No households in the area are without a motor vehicle, which is well below the 7.6% figure for Victoria.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Fern Hill, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 3 vehicles (29%) and 4 or more (17%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Over half of workers drive to work, while 22.2% work from home, a figure slightly above the national average. No one in the area commutes using public transport, which is well below the Australian figure of 3.1%.
22.2% —
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 22.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 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 serving the area. This means the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Victorian average of 1,267.9.
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.
Getting around is a challenge without a car, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 64 minutes, which is much higher than most areas. The drive time to the city is about 57 minutes.
64
Higher than 87% 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.
57
Lower than 58% 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 Fern Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20912/fern-hill/topic/transport