0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Gainsborough · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Gainsborough
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero homes in Gainsborough are without a motor vehicle, making cars an absolute necessity here. This reliance on driving is clear across the area, where the vast majority of households own multiple vehicles and public transport options are non-existent.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high, with 75% of homes owning three or more vehicles. This is well below the Victorian and national figures for homes without a car, which both sit around 7%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Gainsborough, 2 vehicles is the majority at 58%; 3 vehicles is next at 21%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here commutes using public transport, and 22.9% of the workforce works from home, which is a little above the national figure of 21%. Most people drive themselves to work, while 8.6% walk.
22.9% —
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.9%
- 2021: 22.9%
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 the area. This leaves the local frequency of departures far below the Victorian average.
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 heavily dependent on cars, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 68 minutes, which is much higher than most areas.
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.
77
Higher than 55% 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 Gainsborough [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20962/gainsborough/topic/transport