4.3% ▲ +204.3%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Girgarre · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Girgarre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer homes in Girgarre are without a car compared to the national figure. This sparsely populated area relies almost entirely on private vehicles for travel, with nearly 40% of households owning two cars.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 4.3% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the 7.6% seen across Victoria. Most households are well equipped, with 19% owning three vehicles and another 10.9% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Girgarre, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (28%) and 3 vehicles (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here commutes by public transport, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%. Most people drive to work, though 16.4% work from home, a rate well below the Victorian figure of 25.7%.
16.4% ▼ -1.7%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.7%
- 2016: 16.5%
- 2021: 16.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 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.
While the area has three public transport stops and two bus routes, the 42.6 weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Victorian figure of 1,267.9.
3
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.33
Higher than 79% 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).
42.6
Higher than 62% 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).
2
Higher than 75% 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 into the city takes much longer than in most areas, with a typical drive time of 135 minutes. Walking to the nearest transport stop takes about 37 minutes, which is higher than most areas.
37
Higher than 72% 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.
135
Higher than 87% 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 Girgarre [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20999/girgarre/topic/transport