13.5% ▼ -19.0%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.7%
- 2016: 14.1%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Northcote · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Northcote
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly half of working residents in Northcote work from home, a figure far above the national average. This reflects a local trend toward flexible work and a high reliance on digital connectivity rather than daily commuting.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Far more homes here go without a car than in most other areas, with 13.5% of households owning no motor vehicle. This is well above the Victorian figure of 7.6%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Northcote, 1 vehicle is the majority at 51%; 2 vehicles is next at 27%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is the most common way to get to work for 46.8% of residents, which is far above the national figure of 21%. Meanwhile, 4.9% use public transport, a rate a little above the state average.
46.8% ▲ +1048.6%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 46.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
4.9% ▼ -76.4%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.9%
- 2016: 23.5%
- 2021: 4.9%
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.
Northcote has some of the best transit access in the region, with 114 stops and 14 different routes. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are far above the Victorian average, and most of these trips are by bus or tram.
114
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.51
Higher than 75% 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).
2,305.7
Higher than 93% 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).
14
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
53,280
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
239,104
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
46
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport + walking time, in minutes, from the area to its capital city centre on a weekday morning (R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network). Blank where no scheduled service connects the area to the city.
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting around is relatively easy, with a very short 3-minute walk to the nearest stop. The drive time to the city is also among the lowest at just 10 minutes.
3
Lower than 79% 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.
10
Lower than 95% 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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- 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 Northcote [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21971/northcote/topic/transport