Kilmore · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Kilmore

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

Far fewer homes in Kilmore go without a car compared to the state and national figures. Most residents rely on their own vehicles to get around, which is common for a town where driving is the primary way to reach work.

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📍 Kilmore, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Only 3% of homes lack a motor vehicle, a figure well below the Victorian average of 7.6%. Most households own two cars, while about 25% of homes have three or more.

3.0% ▼ -8.2%

Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.2%
  • 2016: 3.4%
  • 2021: 3.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Kilmore splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work for 64% of people, while 15.6% work from home. This working-from-home rate is far below the Victorian figure of 25.7%.

15.6% ▲ +280.0%

Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 4.1%
  • 2016: 3.7%
  • 2021: 15.6%

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

0.9% ▼ -70.4%

Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.1%
  • 2016: 2.8%
  • 2021: 0.9%

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 Kilmore, Car (driver) is the majority at 75%; Worked at home is next at 18%.

Public transport access

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

The area has 38 public transport stops and 4 routes, which is more than 85% of similar areas. However, weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the Victorian average.

4.13

Higher than 74% 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).

642.9

Higher than 81% 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.

It typically takes 51 minutes to drive to the city. Residents have very quick access to transit, with a typical 3-minute walk to the nearest stop.

3

Lower than 79% 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.

51

Lower than 61% 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 Kilmore [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21352/kilmore/topic/transport