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.
Paraparap · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Paraparap
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly half of all households in Paraparap own two cars, reflecting a strong reliance on private vehicles. This is a car-dependent area where virtually every home has a motor vehicle and public transport is non-existent.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is high, with 48.3% of homes having two vehicles and 20.7% owning four or more. No homes in the area are without a motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Paraparap, 2 vehicles is the majority at 54%; 4 or more is next at 23%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here, at 31.5%, which is far above the national figure. For those who do travel, 53.3% drive, while no one uses public transport to get to work.
31.5% ▲ +153.9%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.4%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 31.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 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 leaves the local transport access far below the Victorian average.
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.
The drive time to the city is 70 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.
70
Higher than 50% 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)).
- 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 Paraparap [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22035/paraparap/topic/transport