0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Magpie · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Magpie
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than 63% of workers in Magpie drive themselves to work, highlighting a heavy reliance on cars in this area. Every single home here owns at least one motor vehicle, with many families owning three or more.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high in Magpie, with 31.4% of homes having four or more vehicles. This is well below the Victorian and national figures for homes with no motor vehicle, which sit at 0.0% here.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Magpie, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 4 or more (32%) and 3 vehicles (17%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one uses public transport to get to work, and only 14.2% work from home. This is far below the state average of 25.7% and well below the national figure of 21.0%.
14.2% ▲ +151.8%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.6%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 14.2%
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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This lack of access means the number of weekly departures is far below the Victorian figure of 1,267.9 per 1,000 people.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
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).
0.0
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).
0
Lower than 99% 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 around is slow, with a 93-minute drive time to the city. Residents face a long 37-minute walk to the nearest transport stop, both of which are higher than most areas.
37
Higher than 72% 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.
93
Higher than 65% 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 Magpie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21573/magpie/topic/transport