0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Narbethong · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Narbethong
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A huge gap in car reliance separates Narbethong from the rest of the country, where not a single home lacks a motor vehicle. This is a place where most people depend on their own transport to get around. While 26.5% of workers do their jobs from home, others face long trips to reach the city.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Narbethong has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian and national figures. More than half of all households own three or more vehicles, with 26.9% having four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Narbethong, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 34%, followed by 4 or more (27%) and 3 vehicles (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Nobody here uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national average. Instead, nearly half of workers drive themselves, and 26.5% work from home, a figure well above the Australian average.
26.5% —
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
There are 9.95 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the Victorian average. However, the number of weekly departures is far below the state figure, and the only available service is the bus.
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.
9.95
Higher than 87% 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).
119.4
Higher than 71% 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 is a challenge, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 64 minutes, which is much higher than most areas. The drive time to the city is also longer than most, taking 105 minutes.
64
Higher than 87% 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.
105
Higher than 72% 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 Narbethong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21880/narbethong/topic/transport