2.7% ▼ -0.4%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 2.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Leopold · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Leopold
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every household in Leopold owns a car, making private vehicles the primary way people move around the area. While the neighbourhood has a high number of transport stops, very few residents actually use public transport to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 2.7% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%. Most households are well-equipped for travel, with 42.4% owning two cars and another 22.5% owning three or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Leopold, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work for 64.9% of residents. Working from home is less common here than in the rest of the state, with 14.3% of people doing so, while just 1% commute using public transport.
14.3% ▲ +456.2%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.0% ▼ -50.5%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 1.0%
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.
Leopold has 70 stops and 15 routes, giving it more stops per 1,000 people than most similar areas. However, the number of weekly departures is far below the Victorian average.
70
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.27
Higher than 79% 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).
767.1
Higher than 83% 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).
15
Higher than 86% 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.
Walking to the nearest stop takes about 4 minutes, which is lower than in most areas. The typical drive time to the city is 61 minutes.
4
Lower than 71% 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.
61
Lower than 55% 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 Leopold [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21493/leopold/topic/transport