3.8% ▼ -33.5%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mansfield · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Mansfield
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people in Mansfield use public transport and have more transit stops than in most similar areas. Despite this, the town remains heavily reliant on cars for daily travel, with a typical commute to the city taking 128 minutes.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Mansfield have at least one car, and 39% of households own two. Only 3.8% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the same figure for Victoria and Australia.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Mansfield, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 61.4% of people. Working from home is much less common here than in the rest of the country, at 12.7%.
12.7% ▲ +62.1%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 12.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▼ -47.0%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.9%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 0.5%
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.
Bus services provide all the public transport in the area. While Mansfield has more stops and routes than about 72% of similar areas, the number of weekly departures is far below the Victorian average.
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.
0.36
Higher than 59% 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).
5.1
Higher than 58% 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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Walking to the nearest transport stop takes longer than in most areas, with a typical walk of 28 minutes. The drive time to the city is also much higher than in most similar places.
28
Higher than 65% 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.
128
Higher than 85% 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 Mansfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21599/mansfield/topic/transport