0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Goornong · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Goornong
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than 65% of working residents in Goornong drive themselves to work, highlighting a heavy reliance on cars. Every single home in the area has at least one motor vehicle, making it far more car-dependent than the state and national averages.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
No homes in Goornong are without a motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian rate of 7.6%. Most households have two vehicles, while nearly 19% own four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Goornong, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (21%) and 4 or more (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is much less common here than across Australia, with only 15.4% of people doing so. Public transport is not used for commuting, and 65.3% of the workforce travel by car as the driver.
15.4% ▲ +85.5%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 15.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.0%
- 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.
Goornong has 8.36 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the Victorian figure. However, with only 119.8 weekly departures per 1,000 people, service frequency is far below the state average.
6
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
8.36
Higher than 86% 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).
119.8
Higher than 71% 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).
4
Higher than 82% 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 challenging, as it takes a typical resident 26 minutes to walk to the nearest stop. The drive time to the city is 119 minutes, which is much higher than most areas.
26
Higher than 63% 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.
119
Higher than 80% 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 Goornong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21069/goornong/topic/transport