Lower Norton · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Lower Norton

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

Almost 49% of homes in Lower Norton have two motor vehicles, making cars the dominant way to get around. This is a place where almost every household owns a vehicle, far more than the typical Victorian home. Most residents rely on their own cars for daily travel and work.

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📍 Lower Norton, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Not a single home in the area lacks a motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian rate of 7.6%. Many households have several cars, with 28.9% owning three and 21.1% owning four or more.

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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 Lower Norton, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 3 vehicles (27%) and 4 or more (20%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 63.4% of people as the driver. Only 12.2% work from home, which is far below the state figure of 25.7%, and no one uses public transport to commute.

12.2%

Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 9.9%
  • 2021: 12.2%

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

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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 Lower Norton, Car (driver) is the majority at 79%; Worked at home is next at 15%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in Lower Norton. 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 Lower Norton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21546/lower-norton/topic/transport