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.
Pipers Creek · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Pipers Creek
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every single home in Pipers Creek owns a car, making the area heavily dependent on private vehicles for daily travel. This reliance is reflected in a high number of households with multiple cars and a total lack of public transport use for commuting.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with no homes reported as having no motor vehicle. This is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%, while most households own two or three vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Pipers Creek, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 3 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (10%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common, with 30.7% of people doing so, which is well above the national figure of 21%. Other workers rely almost entirely on cars, as 0% of the population commutes by public transport.
30.7% —
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 22.7%
- 2021: 30.7%
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 virtually non-existent in the area. There are no public transport stops or routes, leaving the community far below the state average for transit access.
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 city takes about 60 minutes by car. For those without a vehicle, the walk to the nearest stop is very long, taking roughly 83 minutes.
83
Higher than 98% 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.
60
Lower than 56% 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 Pipers Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22078/pipers-creek/topic/transport