0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Navigators · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Navigators
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Private cars are essential for daily life in Navigators, where not a single home is without a motor vehicle. This reliance on driving is reflected in a workforce where over half of the residents drive themselves to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households here own multiple cars, with 87.5% of homes having two or more vehicles. This means the rate of homes without a car is 0.0%, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Navigators, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 3 vehicles (25%) and 4 or more (25%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 51.8% of residents. While 14.6% work from home, this is far below the Victorian average of 25.7%, and no one here commutes using public transport.
14.6% ▲ +81.8%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.0%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 14.6%
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: 2.2%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
The area has 7.25 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the state average. However, there are only two bus stops in total, and the number of weekly departures is far below the state figure.
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.
7.25
Higher than 86% 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).
43.5
Higher than 62% 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 to the city takes about 76 minutes by car. For those using public transport, the walk to the nearest stop takes around 18 minutes.
18
Higher than 57% 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.
76
Higher than 54% 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 Navigators [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21903/navigators/topic/transport