Hensley Park · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Hensley Park

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

Roughly 34% of people in Hensley Park work from home, a figure far above the national average. This reflects a community where few people rely on public transport and almost every household owns at least one car.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is universal here, with 0.0% of homes lacking a motor vehicle. This is well below the state and national figures, and over half of all households own three or more vehicles.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Hensley Park, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 3 vehicles (23%) and 1 vehicle (19%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most residents drive to work (61.7%) or work from home (34.0%), while 6.4% walk. No one in the area uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the Australian average.

34.0% —

Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 59.4%
  • 2021: 34.0%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0% —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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 Hensley Park, Car (driver) is the majority at 60%; Worked at home is next at 33%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in Hensley Park. Consequently, the number of weekly departures 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 Hensley Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21170/hensley-park/topic/transport