Musk · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Musk

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

Fewer people use public transport to get to work in Musk compared to the national figure. While most homes have at least one car, nearly a quarter of the workforce now works from home.

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📍 Musk, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Almost half of all homes have two motor vehicles. Only 5.5% of households have no vehicle, which is a little below the national figure.

5.5% ▲ +124.7%

Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.4%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 5.5%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Musk, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 1 vehicle (26%) and 3 vehicles (14%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one in the area uses public transport to get to work. Instead, 24.2% of people work from home, which is well above the Australian figure.

24.2% ▲ +101.6%

Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 12.0%
  • 2016: 9.5%
  • 2021: 24.2%

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: 2.0%
  • 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 Musk, Car (driver) is the majority at 54%; Worked at home is next at 30%.

Public transport access

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

Musk has 11.3 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the Victorian average. However, the 282.5 weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state figure.

11.30

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).

282.5

Higher than 74% 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.

The walk to the nearest stop takes about 3 minutes, which is much lower than most areas. It takes typically 77 minutes to drive to the city.

3

Lower than 79% 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 Musk [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21851/musk/topic/transport