5.4% ▲ +57.5%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 5.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Pioneer Bay · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Pioneer Bay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Higher rates of public transport access and car-free living mark Pioneer Bay compared to most similar areas. While the typical home has one or two cars, 5.4% of households have no vehicle at all. This is more common here than in most other areas of this type.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have one or two cars, with 42.3% owning two and 41.1% owning one. About 5.4% of households have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Pioneer Bay splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (41%) and 1 vehicle (40%), with 3 vehicles at 8%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 78.8% of people as the driver. Very few people work from home at 9.6%, a figure far below both the state and national figures.
9.6% ▲ +287.8%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 9.6%
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.
With two routes and two stops, Pioneer Bay has more public transport stops per 1,000 people than most similar areas. However, weekly departures are far below the Victorian figure, and all services are buses.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.48
Higher than 79% 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).
134.2
Higher than 72% 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).
2
Higher than 75% 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.
It takes about 6 minutes to walk to the nearest stop, which is lower than most areas. The drive time to the city is 65 minutes, placing it around the middle for its level.
6
Lower than 64% 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.
65
Lower than 53% 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 Pioneer Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22077/pioneer-bay/topic/transport