Kyabram · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Kyabram

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

Driving is the primary way people get around Kyabram, where 68.3% of workers use a car to get to their jobs. This reliance on vehicles is reinforced by the town's distance from the city and a lack of public transport use for commuting.

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📍 Kyabram, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households own at least one car, with 36.5% having two. Only 6% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the figures for Victoria and Australia.

6.0% ▼ -30.1%

Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 8.6%
  • 2016: 6.0%
  • 2021: 6.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Kyabram splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 1 vehicle (34%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one in Kyabram uses public transport to get to work, and only 8.7% work from home. This is far below the national figure of 21% and the state figure of 25.7%.

8.7% ▲ +63.5%

Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 5.3%
  • 2016: 4.6%
  • 2021: 8.7%

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: 0.3%
  • 2016: 0.1%
  • 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 Kyabram, Car (driver) is the majority at 79%; Worked at home is next at 10%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is provided only by buses, with four routes and two stops. While the number of routes is larger than in about 85% of similar areas, weekly departures are far below the Victorian average.

0.27

Higher than 58% 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).

10.4

Higher than 58% 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.

Reaching the city is a long trip, taking 140 minutes, which is much higher than most areas. Walking to the nearest transport stop takes 34 minutes, also higher than in most areas.

34

Higher than 70% 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.

140

Higher than 88% 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 Kyabram [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21412/kyabram/topic/transport