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.
Fosterville · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Fosterville
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A drive time of 115 minutes to the city makes Fosterville a very remote place. This isolation is reflected in the local transport patterns, where every single home owns at least one motor vehicle to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are essential here, with 76% of homes owning either two or three vehicles. None of the households in Fosterville are without a car, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Fosterville, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 50%, followed by 3 vehicles (36%) and 1 vehicle (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, with 54.5% being the driver. While some work from home, at 13.6% this is far below the Victoria figure of 25.7%, and nobody uses public transport to commute.
13.6% —
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 13.6%
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 in Fosterville. This means weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the state figure 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.
The journey to the city is long, with a typical drive time of 115 minutes, which is much higher than most similar areas.
115
Higher than 78% 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 Fosterville
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Fosterville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20942/fosterville/topic/transport