4.0% ▼ -9.7%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.4%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Hopetoun · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Hopetoun
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car reliance remains the dominant way to get around Hopetoun, where 0% of workers use public transport to commute. While the town has a relatively high number of bus stops for its size, the actual number of services is far below the Victorian figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households here have multiple cars, with 34.8% owning two and 16.1% owning three. Only 4% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure well below the national rate of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Hopetoun splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 60.8% of residents. Those who work from home make up 14.3% of the workforce, which is far below the 25.7% seen across Victoria.
14.3% ▲ +225.4%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.4%
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 14.3%
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: 1.8%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Hopetoun has 4 public transport stops, which is more than about 76% of similar areas. However, the 33.1 weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state figure of 1,267.9.
4
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.76
Higher than 81% 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).
33.1
Higher than 61% 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).
3
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to the nearest public transport stop takes a typical 39 minutes on foot, which is higher than most areas.
39
Higher than 73% 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.
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 Hopetoun [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21201/hopetoun/topic/transport