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.
Ovens · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Ovens
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero homes without a car makes Ovens a place where vehicle ownership is universal. Most households here own at least two vehicles, reflecting a heavy reliance on private transport for daily life.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Half of all homes have two motor vehicles, and about 16% own four or more. This means no one in the area gets by without a car, which is well below the 7.6% of Victorian homes that have none.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Ovens, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 48%, followed by 1 vehicle (21%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, with 60.2% as the driver. Around 15.7% work from home, which is well below the national figure of 21.0%, while no one uses public transport to commute.
15.7% —
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 15.7%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is non-existent here, with zero stops and zero routes. This is far below the Victorian average for stops and departures per 1,000 people.
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 a long time, with a typical walk of 86 minutes. This is among the highest travel times for its level.
86
Higher than 99% 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 Ovens [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22021/ovens/topic/transport