Grangefields · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Grangefields

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

Fewer people rely on public transport in Grangefields than in most similar areas. Car ownership is exceptionally high here, with every single home owning at least one motor vehicle.

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📍 Grangefields, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car use is dominant in this area, as no homes are without a vehicle. This is well below the state and national figures, and over half of all households own three or more cars.

Motor vehicles per home

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Grangefields splits fairly evenly between 4 or more (32%) and 3 vehicles (29%), with 1 vehicle at 23%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the only way people get to work, with 80% of workers driving themselves. No one in the area works from home or uses public transport, which is far below the Victorian and Australian figures.

How people get to work

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In Grangefields, Car (driver) is the majority at 90%; Car (passenger) is next at 10%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport is virtually non-existent here. There are no stops or routes in the area, and the number of weekly departures is far below the state 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).

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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).

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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 drive time to the city is much lower than in most similar areas at 28 minutes. However, the walk to the nearest transport stop takes 36 minutes, which is higher than most areas.

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Higher than 71% 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.

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Lower than 76% 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 Grangefields [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21087/grangefields/topic/transport