4.5% ▼ -17.4%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.5%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 4.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mallacoota · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Mallacoota
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people are working from home in Mallacoota than in previous years, though the town remains heavily reliant on cars. While 17.1% of the workforce now works from home, the vast majority of residents still depend on private vehicles to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, and 37.1% have two. Only 4.5% of households have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Mallacoota splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 47.4% of people. Very few use public transport, with only 0.6% doing so, which is a little below the 3.1% national figure.
17.1% ▲ +71.9%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 10.5%
- 2021: 17.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▲ —
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 two bus routes. With only 23.7 weekly departures per 1,000 people, service levels are far below the Victorian average of 1,267.9.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.69
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).
23.7
Higher than 60% 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).
2
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Mallacoota [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21584/mallacoota/topic/transport