Granite Rock · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Granite Rock

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

A stark gap in public transport access defines Granite Rock, where there are no available stops or routes. This makes the area heavily reliant on private cars for any movement, with not a single home lacking a motor vehicle.

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📍 Granite Rock, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home in Granite Rock has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the national and state figures. Most households have multiple cars, with 39.6% owning two and 28.6% owning three.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

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

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Granite Rock, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 3 vehicles (28%) and 1 vehicle (18%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way people get to work, with 59.3% of workers as the driver. Working from home is the next most common option at 19.3%, which is a little below the national figure.

19.3% ▲ +285.2%

Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 5.0%
  • 2016: 5.0%
  • 2021: 19.3%

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.

How people get to work

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In Granite Rock, Car (driver) is the majority at 67%; Worked at home is next at 22%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes serving the area. This leaves the number of weekly departures at 0.0, a figure that is far below the Victorian average.

0.00

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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Granite Rock [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21088/granite-rock/topic/transport