3.1% ▲ +13.5%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 3.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mirboo North · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Mirboo North
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A 107-minute drive to the city marks Mirboo North as a remote area where residents rely heavily on their own cars. Most homes here have multiple vehicles, while very few people use public transport to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are essential here, with 39.3% of homes owning two vehicles and 25.5% owning three or more. Only 3.1% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Mirboo North, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one in Mirboo North uses public transport to get to work, a figure well below the national average of 3.1%. Instead, 58.6% of workers drive and 17.1% work from home, though this last group is well below the Victoria figure of 25.7%.
17.1% ▲ +122.7%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.7%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 17.1%
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: 0.6%
- 2016: 0.3%
- 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 limited to a single bus route with only two stops. This results in 16.8 weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the Victorian average of 1,267.9.
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.
0.88
Higher than 61% 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).
16.8
Higher than 59% 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).
1
Higher than 71% 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 around without a car is difficult, as the typical walk to the nearest stop takes 35 minutes. Both this walk time and the drive time to the city are higher than most areas.
35
Higher than 71% 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.
107
Higher than 73% 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 Mirboo North [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21703/mirboo-north/topic/transport