1.4% ▼ -34.2%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 1.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Metung · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Metung
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost no one in Metung uses public transport to get to work, making cars the essential way to move. Only 1.4% of homes lack a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. This reliance on private cars is a defining feature of the area.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have multiple cars, with 46.2% owning two and 14.5% owning three. This high level of ownership is reflected in the fact that very few households are without a vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Metung, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 56.9% of residents, while 19.4% work from home. No one in the area commutes using public transport, a figure well below the national average.
19.4% ▲ +146.8%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.9%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 19.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 0.6%
- 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 Metung. This leaves the area far below the state figure for transit access, with zero weekly departures 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 to a transport stop is a significant challenge here, with the walk to the nearest one taking about 88 minutes. This is among the highest times recorded for areas at this level.
88
Higher than 99% 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.
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 Metung [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21673/metung/topic/transport