Nar Nar Goon North · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Nar Nar Goon North

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

A walk of 90 minutes to the nearest transport stop is common in Nar Nar Goon North. This is a highly car-dependent area where almost every home owns at least one motor vehicle. Very few residents use public transport to get to work, and most rely on their own cars or working from home.

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📍 Nar Nar Goon North, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high here, with 84% of homes owning two or more vehicles. Only 1.3% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

1.3% ▲ —

Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 1.3%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Nar Nar Goon North splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (31%) and 3 vehicles (28%), with 4 or more at 26%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

About 20.8% of people work from home, a figure that is about the same as the national average. Most others drive, with 59.7% of workers commuting as the driver of a car.

20.8% ▲ +95.1%

Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 10.6%
  • 2016: 11.3%
  • 2021: 20.8%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

1.0% ▼ -33.3%

Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 1.6%
  • 2016: 0.8%
  • 2021: 1.0%

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 Nar Nar Goon North, Car (driver) is the majority at 68%; Worked at home is next at 24%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is virtually non-existent in the area, with zero routes, stops, or departures. This leaves the region far below the Victorian average for transport access.

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.

How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

It takes about 49 minutes to drive to the city. For those without a car, the walk to the nearest stop is among the longest for similar areas, taking 90 minutes.

90

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.

49

Lower than 62% 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)).
  • Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
  • 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 Nar Nar Goon North [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21879/nar-nar-goon-north/topic/transport