7.4% ▼ -24.5%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.8%
- 2016: 7.9%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Forest Hill · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Forest Hill
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A short two-minute walk to the nearest stop makes daily travel very convenient for residents in Forest Hill. While most people rely on cars, over a third of the workforce now works from home, which is far above the national figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 7.4% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that is about the same as the state and national averages. Most households own either one or two vehicles, with 40.6% having one and 37.9% having two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Forest Hill splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (41%) and 2 vehicles (38%), with 3 vehicles at 10%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here, with 32.7% of people doing so, which is well above the Victorian average of 25.7%. Driving is still the most popular way to get to work at 44.8%, while 2.7% use public transport.
32.7% ▲ +801.7%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 32.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.7% ▼ -57.8%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 2.7%
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.
Forest Hill has one of the highest number of public transport stops and routes for its size. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are well above the Victorian figure, with buses making up 96.2% of the available services.
51
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.73
Higher than 76% 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).
1,739.9
Higher than 90% 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).
17
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
23,193
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
129,885
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
59
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport + walking time, in minutes, from the area to its capital city centre on a weekday morning (R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network). Blank where no scheduled service connects the area to the city.
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting into the city is relatively quick, with a typical drive time of 22 minutes. This is much lower than most similar areas.
2
Lower than 86% 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.
22
Lower than 81% 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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- 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 Forest Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20937/forest-hill/topic/transport