Grassdale · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Grassdale

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

Forty per cent of working residents in Grassdale work from home, a figure far above the national average. This reliance on home-based work is a defining feature of the area, where public transport is almost entirely absent.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

The most common motor vehicles per home is 4 or more at 39%, ahead of 3 vehicles (33%).

Motor vehicles per home

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Grassdale splits fairly evenly between 4 or more (33%) and 3 vehicles (29%), with 1 vehicle at 24%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

While 40% of people work from home, another 36.7% drive and 16.7% walk to their jobs. Very few people use public transport to commute, with 0% doing so, which is well below the Australian figure of 3.1%.

40.0% ▼ -30.6%

Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 57.6%
  • 2021: 40.0%

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%
  • 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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Grassdale splits fairly evenly between Worked at home (43%) and Car (driver) (39%), with Walked at 18%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in Grassdale. This means the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Victoria average of 1,267.9.

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 Grassdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21091/grassdale/topic/transport