1.1% ▼ -73.5%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 1.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lovely Banks · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Lovely Banks
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer than 2% of homes in Lovely Banks lack a car, making it much more dependent on vehicles than the state average. Most households own at least two cars, and the area has a very low rate of people working from home compared to the rest of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 37.2% of homes having two vehicles and 19.4% owning four or more. Only 1.1% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Lovely Banks, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 37%, followed by 1 vehicle (24%) and 4 or more (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 67.6% of residents. Working from home is far less common here than in Victoria, with only 11.8% doing so compared to the state's 25.7%.
11.8% ▲ +441.7%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.2% ▼ -42.4%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 1.2%
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 a single bus route with five stops. While the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is much higher than in similar areas, it remains far below the Victorian average.
5
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.80
Higher than 64% 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).
469.1
Higher than 78% 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.
The drive time to the city is 53 minutes, which is lower than in most similar areas. However, getting to the nearest transport stop is difficult, with a 64-minute walk that is much higher than most other areas.
64
Higher than 87% 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.
53
Lower than 60% 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 Lovely Banks [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21544/lovely-banks/topic/transport