Newbury · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Newbury

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

Thirty-seven percent of workers in Newbury work from home, a figure far above the national average. This is a car-dependent area where every single household owns at least one motor vehicle. With no public transport available, residents rely almost entirely on private cars or home-based work to get around.

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📍 Newbury, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home in Newbury has a motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian and national figures for households without a car. Most homes are well-equipped, with 73.3% owning three or more vehicles.

0.0% —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Newbury, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 3 vehicles (28%) and 1 vehicle (19%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is very common here, with 37% of the workforce doing so, which is far above the national figure of 21%. No one in the area commutes using public transport.

37.0% —

Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 15.6%
  • 2021: 37.0%

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

0.0% —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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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Newbury splits fairly evenly between Car (driver) (50%) and Worked at home (50%).

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport routes or stops in Newbury. This lack of access is far below the Victorian average for stops and departures per 1,000 people.

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting around on foot is difficult here, with the walk to the nearest stop taking 71 minutes, which is much higher than most areas. The drive time to the city is 66 minutes.

71

Higher than 91% 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.

66

Lower than 52% 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 Newbury [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21924/newbury/topic/transport