0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lancaster · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Lancaster
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every home in Lancaster owns a car, making it a place where residents rely heavily on their own vehicles. Private transport is essential here, with the typical household owning two or more cars and very few people using public transport to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is universal in Lancaster, as 0% of homes are without a motor vehicle. This is well below the figures for Victoria and Australia, with 42.2% of homes owning two vehicles and another 21.9% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Lancaster, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 4 or more (22%) and 3 vehicles (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Getting to work mostly involves driving, with 56.4% of workers being the driver. This is alongside a high rate of people working from home at 25.0%, which is well above the national figure.
25.0% ▲ +103.4%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 16.8%
- 2021: 25.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 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.
Public transport is limited to two bus routes. While the area has 10.05 stops per 1,000 people—far above the Victorian average—the number of weekly departures is far below the state figure.
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.
10.05
Higher than 87% 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).
123.1
Higher than 71% 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.
The drive time to the city is 134 minutes, which is much higher than most similar areas. It takes a typical resident about 18 minutes to walk to the nearest transport stop.
18
Higher 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.
134
Higher than 87% 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 Lancaster [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21454/lancaster/topic/transport