Ghin Ghin · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Ghin Ghin

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Nearly half of all workers in Ghin Ghin work from home, making it one of the most remote-work-heavy areas in the region. This reliance on home offices is a key feature of the local landscape, where a total lack of public transport and an extreme distance from the city make private cars essential.

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📍 Ghin Ghin, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home in Ghin Ghin has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian and national figures. About 35% of households own two vehicles, while a further 35% have three or more.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Ghin Ghin, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 1 vehicle (24%) and 3 vehicles (24%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is very common here at 47.1%, a figure far above the national average. No one uses public transport to get to work, with most others driving or walking.

47.1%

Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 14.3%
  • 2021: 47.1%

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.

How people get to work

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In Ghin Ghin, Worked at home is the majority at 57%; Car (driver) is next at 32%.

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 community far below the Victorian average for transit access and weekly departures.

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The drive time to the city is 198 minutes, which is among the highest for similar areas.

198

Higher than 99% 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 Ghin Ghin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20991/ghin-ghin/topic/transport