Millbrook · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Millbrook

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Not a single home in Millbrook is without a motor vehicle, a stark contrast to the 7.6% of Victorian households that have no car. This heavy reliance on private transport defines the area, where the typical home keeps multiple vehicles and residents almost exclusively drive to work.

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📍 Millbrook, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households here have several cars, with 86.2% of homes owning two or more vehicles. This explains why there are no carless homes in the area, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.7%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Millbrook, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 37%, followed by 3 vehicles (25%) and 4 or more (22%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 65.7% of residents, while 19.6% work from home. This is a little below the 21% national figure for home-based work, and no one here uses public transport to commute.

19.6% ▲ +324.0%

Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 4.6%
  • 2016: 15.6%
  • 2021: 19.6%

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.

How people get to work

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In Millbrook, Car (driver) is the majority at 77%; Worked at home is next at 23%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

While Millbrook has 11.11 stops per 1,000 people—far above the Victorian average—these two bus stops provide very few services. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the state average.

11.11

Higher than 88% 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).

33.3

Higher than 61% 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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting to the city takes about 80 minutes by car. Walking to the nearest transport stop takes 68 minutes, which is much higher than most similar areas.

68

Higher than 90% 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.

80

Higher than 57% 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 Millbrook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21684/millbrook/topic/transport