4.5% ▼ -46.0%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 4.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Golden Beach · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Golden Beach
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than 60% of workers in Golden Beach drive themselves to work, highlighting the area's heavy reliance on private cars. This is a place where almost every household owns at least one vehicle and public transport is rarely used for the daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have one or two cars, while only 4.5% of households have no motor vehicle. This is a higher proportion than in most similar areas, although it remains well below the Victorian figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Golden Beach splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (41%) and 2 vehicles (38%), with 3 vehicles at 10%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here commutes using public transport, and only 13.5% of people work from home, which is far below the state and national figures.
13.5% ▲ +312.8%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 13.5%
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 there is one bus route and stop serving the area, this is far below the Victorian average for service frequency. The number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is also much lower than the state figure.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.81
Higher than 69% 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).
33.7
Higher than 61% 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).
1
Higher than 71% 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 to the nearest transport stop is a challenge, with a typical walk of 60 minutes, which is much higher than in most areas.
60
Higher than 85% 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.
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 Golden Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21054/golden-beach/topic/transport