0.9% ▲ +32.2%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 0.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Miners Rest · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Miners Rest
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every home in Miners Rest relies on a car to get around, with a tiny 0.9% of households owning no motor vehicle. This dependence on driving is clear in daily life, as 67.9% of workers drive themselves to work each day.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have multiple cars, with 48.2% owning two and 17.1% owning three. This means far fewer homes are without a vehicle compared to the Victorian average.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Miners Rest, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 48%, followed by 1 vehicle (24%) and 3 vehicles (17%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here than in the rest of the state, at 13.0%. Very few people use public transport for their commute, at just 0.5%.
13.0% ▲ +287.6%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▼ -60.2%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 0.6%
- 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.
The area has 17 public transport stops, which is more than 86% of similar areas, but these are all buses. While there are many stops, the number of weekly departures is far below the Victorian figure.
17
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.44
Higher than 75% 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).
417.3
Higher than 77% 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.
The typical walk to the nearest transport stop takes about 10 minutes. From the area, the drive time to the city is 77 minutes.
10
Lower than 54% 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.
77
Higher than 55% 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 Miners Rest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21691/miners-rest/topic/transport