0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Merrimu · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Merrimu
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero households without a car defines the transport landscape in Merrimu, making it far more reliant on private vehicles than the state or national averages. This dependence is clear in the way people get to work and a total lack of local public transport options.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home here has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the Victoria and Australia figures for carless households. In fact, over a third of homes own four or more vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Merrimu, the largest group is 4 or more at 33%, followed by 2 vehicles (26%) and 3 vehicles (25%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 56.5% of residents, while 18.1% work from home. This is a little below the national figure for working from home, and no one here commutes via public transport.
18.1% ▲ +143.0%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 18.1%
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: 2.9%
- 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.
Public transport is non-existent in the area, with no stops or routes available. This puts the local service far below the Victorian average for both stops and weekly departures.
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).
0
Lower than 99% 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).
0
Lower than 99% 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.
It takes a typical resident 42 minutes to drive to the city. Because there is no local service, the walk to the nearest stop takes 71 minutes, which is much higher than most areas.
71
Higher than 91% 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.
42
Lower than 66% 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 Merrimu [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21668/merrimu/topic/transport