Goldie · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Goldie

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

Almost every home in Goldie has a car, making the area heavily reliant on driving for daily life. With no public transport options available and a typical drive to the city taking 76 minutes, private vehicles are essential for residents here.

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📍 Goldie, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Not a single home in Goldie is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households are well-equipped, with 87.8% owning two or more vehicles.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 4.2%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Goldie, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 3 vehicles (24%) and 4 or more (17%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 62.7% of residents, while 20% work from home. This is a higher rate of home-working than most similar areas, though it remains a little below the national figure.

20.0% ▲ +108.2%

Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 9.6%
  • 2016: 3.6%
  • 2021: 20.0%

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: 2.7%
  • 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 Goldie, Car (driver) is the majority at 76%; Worked at home is next at 24%.

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. Consequently, the number of weekly departures and people reachable by transit is far below the Victorian average.

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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.

How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The typical drive from Goldie to the city takes 76 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.

76

Higher than 54% 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)).
  • Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
  • 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 Goldie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21059/goldie/topic/transport