Lima South · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Lima South

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

A total absence of public transport options marks the gap between Lima South and the rest of the state. Every single home in the area owns at least one motor vehicle, making private cars the only way people get around this rural landscape.

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📍 Lima South, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Cars are essential here, with no homes lacking a motor vehicle. Most households own several, as 85.4% of homes have three or more vehicles.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Lima South, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 35%, followed by 4 or more (27%) and 3 vehicles (23%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Since there are no bus or train trips, 59.3% of workers travel by car. Working from home is more common here than in most similar areas, though at 19.8% this is still well below the Victorian figure.

19.8%

Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 6.1%
  • 2021: 19.8%

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

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Lima South, Car (driver) is the majority at 67%; Worked at home is next at 25%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means the number of weekly departures and stops per 1,000 people is far below the Victorian average.

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Lower than 99% 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).

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Lower than 99% 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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Lima South [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21507/lima-south/topic/transport