Greta West · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Greta West

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

A total lack of households without a car marks Greta West as an area far more dependent on private vehicles than the national average. While 7.4% of Australian homes have no motor vehicle, every single home here owns at least one. This heavy reliance on cars is reflected in the local work habits and a complete absence of public transport options.

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📍 Greta West, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high, with 40.9% of homes owning two vehicles and 15.2% owning four or more. This explains why 0.0% of households are without a motor vehicle, a figure well below the 7.6% seen across Victoria.

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 Greta West, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 3 vehicles (23%) and 1 vehicle (18%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is much more common here than in most areas, with 28.9% of people doing so, which is well above the national figure of 21.0%. Those who do travel rely almost entirely on cars, as 0.0% of workers use public transport to get to work.

28.9% ▲ +134.8%

Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 12.3%
  • 2016: 21.4%
  • 2021: 28.9%

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 Greta West, Car (driver) is the majority at 58%; Worked at home is next at 33%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent in Greta West, with zero stops and zero routes. This is far below the Victorian average of 4.41 stops per 1,000 people.

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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).

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 Greta West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21110/greta-west/topic/transport