7.9% ▼ -6.0%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.4%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Nowa Nowa · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Nowa Nowa
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Driving is the primary way to get around Nowa Nowa, as no one uses public transport to get to work. While most homes own at least one car, about 7.9% of households have no motor vehicle at all.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 32.9% owning two and 18.4% owning three. Around 7.9% of households have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Nowa Nowa splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (31%) and 1 vehicle (29%), with 3 vehicles at 18%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Nobody in Nowa Nowa uses public transport to commute, and 16.7% work from home, which is well below the national figure of 21%. The vast majority rely on cars, with 68.1% driving themselves to work.
16.7% ▲ +97.2%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.5%
- 2016: 9.0%
- 2021: 16.7%
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 20.10 stops per 1,000 people, far above the Victorian figure of 4.41. However, the 336.7 weekly departures per 1,000 people is much lower than the state average.
4
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
20.10
Higher than 92% 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).
336.7
Higher than 75% 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).
4
Higher than 82% 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Nowa Nowa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21975/nowa-nowa/topic/transport