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.
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Transport & Vehicles in Forbes
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 40% of Forbes households own two cars, reflecting a strong reliance on private vehicles in this rural area. This is a place where almost every home has a car and very few people use public transport to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Forbes has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the 7.6% of Victorian households that have none. Most homes are well equipped, with 34% owning three vehicles and nearly a quarter owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Forbes splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (35%) and 3 vehicles (30%), with 4 or more at 22%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Over a quarter of residents (26.3%) work from home, which is well above the national figure of 21%. No one in the area uses public transport to get to work, while 53.9% of workers drive themselves.
26.3% —
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 14.5%
- 2021: 26.3%
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.
Public transport is nonexistent here, with zero routes or stops serving the area. This is far below the Victorian average of 4.41 stops 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.
Getting around without a car is difficult, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 68 minutes. This is much higher than most similar areas, and it takes 56 minutes to drive to the city.
68
Higher than 90% 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.
56
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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Forbes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20936/forbes/topic/transport