1.3% ▼ -37.3%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Flowerdale · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Flowerdale
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A high number of transport stops per person marks Flowerdale as an outlier compared to similar areas. Most residents rely on private cars to get around, with only 1.3% of homes lacking a motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are essential here, as only 1.3% of homes have no motor vehicle. This is well below the figures for Victoria and Australia, with 36.7% of households owning two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Flowerdale splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 1 vehicle (34%), with 3 vehicles at 20%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 62.5% of residents. About 16.5% work from home, which is well below the national figure.
16.5% ▲ +18.7%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.9%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 16.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.2% ▲ —
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.2%
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.
While the area has 7.59 stops per 1,000 people—far above the Victorian average—actual service is low. Weekly departures are far below the state figure, with the only available route being the bus.
6
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
7.59
Higher than 86% 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).
45.6
Higher than 62% 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).
1
Higher than 71% 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.
It takes typically 63 minutes to drive to the city. The walk to the nearest transport stop is usually 12 minutes.
12
Lower than 51% 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.
63
Lower than 54% 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 Flowerdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20932/flowerdale/topic/transport