Grantville · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Grantville

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

About 64% of working residents in Grantville drive themselves to work, making the car the primary way people get around. This is a highly car-dependent area where very few homes lack a motor vehicle. While there are several transport stops available, almost no one uses public transport to commute.

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📍 Grantville, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Only 2.6% of Grantville homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well below the national average of 7.4%. Most households own one or two cars, while 8.4% have four or more.

2.6% ▼ -67.3%

Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 8.0%
  • 2016: 3.5%
  • 2021: 2.6%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Grantville splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (38%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one here commutes to work using public transport, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%. Additionally, the 12.7% of people working from home is far below the Victoria average of 25.7%.

12.7% ▲ +88.1%

Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 6.8%
  • 2016: 7.4%
  • 2021: 12.7%

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: 1.1%
  • 2016: 1.0%
  • 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 Grantville, Car (driver) is the majority at 78%; Worked at home is next at 16%.

Public transport access

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

Grantville has 12 public transport stops, which is far above the state average per 1,000 people. However, the number of weekly departures is far below the state figure, with all services provided by buses.

10.27

Higher than 87% 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).

209.8

Higher than 73% 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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

It takes about 13 minutes to walk to the nearest transport stop. The drive time to the city is 68 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.

13

Higher than 50% 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.

68

Lower than 51% 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 Grantville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21089/grantville/topic/transport