2.5% ▼ -12.8%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lower Plenty · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Lower Plenty
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Roughly 32% of people in Lower Plenty work from home, a figure far above the national average. This high rate of remote work defines the local transport landscape, where most residents rely on private cars and very few use public transit for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common here, with 43.6% of homes having two vehicles. Only 2.5% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the figures for both Victoria and Australia.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Lower Plenty, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 1 vehicle (31%) and 3 vehicles (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
While 46.6% of workers drive to get to work, only 1.1% use public transport, which is a little below the state and national figures. This reflects the high proportion of people who work from home.
31.9% ▲ +558.9%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 31.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.1% ▼ -73.9%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 1.1%
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.
Lower Plenty has 13 public transport stops and 5 routes, mostly buses. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are among the highest for similar areas and well above the Victorian figure.
13
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.28
Higher than 71% 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).
1,715.8
Higher than 90% 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).
5
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
16,539
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
16,539
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
The drive time to the city is 22 minutes, which is much lower than most areas. For those walking, it takes about 16 minutes to reach the nearest stop.
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.
22
Lower than 81% 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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- 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 Lower Plenty [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21547/lower-plenty/topic/transport