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.
Nirranda · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Nirranda
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every single household in Nirranda owns a car, which is a huge gap compared to the state and national figures. This reliance on private vehicles is the defining feature of local travel, as there are no public transport options available in the area.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every home in Nirranda has at least one vehicle, which is well below the Victorian and Australian rates of households without cars. Most residents own several vehicles, with 76.2% of homes having three or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Nirranda splits fairly evenly between 3 vehicles (33%) and 4 or more (33%), with 1 vehicle at 21%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Cars are the primary way to get to work for 74.1% of residents, while 11.1% walk. Only 11.1% work from home, a figure that is far below the Victorian average.
11.1% ▼ -64.6%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.4%
- 2016: 31.3%
- 2021: 11.1%
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 routes or stops in Nirranda. This means the number of weekly departures is far below the Victorian figure.
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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to the nearest transport stop takes much longer here than in most areas, with a typical walk of 61 minutes.
61
Higher than 86% 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.
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 Nirranda [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21949/nirranda/topic/transport