0.8% ▲ —
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Newlands Arm · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Newlands Arm
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A far lower percentage of people use public transport in Newlands Arm compared to the rest of the state. Almost every home here relies on a car to get around, with the vast majority of workers driving themselves to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Nearly 70% of households have two or more cars, and only 0.8% of homes have no motor vehicle. This is well below the 7.6% figure seen across Victoria.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Newlands Arm, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 1 vehicle (25%) and 3 vehicles (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most workers drive, with 70.5% as the driver and 4.2% as a passenger. Working from home is much less common here than elsewhere, at 12.3% compared to 25.7% across Victoria.
12.3% ▲ +317.5%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 12.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the state figure of 1,267.9.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
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.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Newlands Arm [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21930/newlands-arm/topic/transport