Hazelwood North · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Hazelwood North

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

Almost every home in Hazelwood North has a car, as few as 0.8% of households are without a motor vehicle. This reliance on private transport is clear in the daily commute, where nearly 70% of workers drive themselves to their jobs.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Cars are common here, with 66% of homes owning three or more vehicles. This is far higher than the state and national figures, where only 7.6% and 7.4% of households have no vehicle.

0.8% ▲ +19.6%

Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.6%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.8%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Hazelwood North, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 4 or more (27%) and 3 vehicles (21%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, while 14.5% of people work from home, which is far below the Victorian figure of 25.7%. No one in the area uses public transport for their commute.

14.5% ▲ +286.1%

Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.8%
  • 2016: 3.5%
  • 2021: 14.5%

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 Hazelwood North, Car (driver) is the majority at 79%; Worked at home is next at 17%.

Public transport access

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

The area has 7 public transport stops and 6 routes, which is more than most similar areas. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Victorian figure.

4.51

Higher than 75% 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).

268.7

Higher than 74% 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.

Getting to the city takes a long time, with a typical drive of 99 minutes. Residents generally have a 12-minute walk to the nearest public transport stop.

12

Lower than 51% 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.

99

Higher than 68% 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 Hazelwood North [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21156/hazelwood-north/topic/transport