0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lexton · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Lexton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Not a single home in Lexton is without a motor vehicle, making it far more car-dependent than the state and national averages. This reliance on driving is clear, with the vast majority of residents using a car to get to work. While public transport infrastructure exists, it is rarely used by the local workforce.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is universal here, with 0.0% of homes lacking a vehicle, a figure well below the Victorian average of 7.6%. Most households own multiple cars, with 21% having four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Lexton splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (30%) and 1 vehicle (25%), with 3 vehicles at 25%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 55.9% of people as the driver. Working from home is common for 18% of residents, though this is a little below the national figure of 21%.
18.0% ▲ +68.7%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.7%
- 2016: 17.1%
- 2021: 18.0%
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.
Lexton has 7.04 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is well above the state average. However, there are very few services, with weekly departures per 1,000 people far below the Victorian figure.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
7.04
Higher than 86% 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).
14.1
Higher than 59% 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).
1
Higher than 71% 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.
Getting to the city involves a long drive of about 98 minutes. For those using public transport, the typical walk to the nearest stop takes 16 minutes.
16
Higher than 54% 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.
98
Higher than 68% 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 Lexton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21497/lexton/topic/transport