1.5% ▼ -45.5%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 1.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Kialla · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Kialla
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Few people in Kialla have shifted their travel habits since 2011, and the area remains heavily dependent on cars. Most households own multiple vehicles, and just 1.5% of homes have no motor vehicle at all, which is well below the national figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 46.5% of homes having two vehicles and 10.4% owning four or more. Only 1.5% of households are without a motor vehicle, a figure well below the 7.6% seen across Victoria.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Kialla, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 1 vehicle (22%) and 3 vehicles (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 71.6% of residents. Working from home is far less common here than across Australia, at just 9.7%, while only 0.2% of people use public transport to commute.
9.7% ▲ +124.3%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 9.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -74.1%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.2%
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.
The area has 26 public transport stops and two routes, both of which are more than most similar areas. However, the 167.2 weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state figure of 1,267.9, and all services are buses.
26
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.00
Higher than 69% 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).
167.2
Higher than 72% 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).
2
Higher than 75% 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.
A typical trip to the city takes 110 minutes, which is much higher than in most other areas. The walk to the nearest public transport stop takes about 8 minutes.
8
Lower than 57% 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.
110
Higher than 75% 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 Kialla [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21340/kialla/topic/transport