0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Purnim · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Purnim
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
About 61% of workers in Purnim drive themselves to work, reflecting a deep reliance on private cars. This is a place where almost every household owns a motor vehicle, and the typical home has two or more. While some public transport exists, it is used by almost no one for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is nearly universal here, with 0.0% of homes lacking a motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households have multiple cars, with 45.9% owning two and 14.3% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Purnim, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 1 vehicle (22%) and 3 vehicles (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, and 15.8% of people work from home. This working-from-home rate is well below the Victorian average of 25.7%. No one uses public transport to commute, which is well below the national figure.
15.8% ▲ +11.7%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.2%
- 2016: 9.6%
- 2021: 15.8%
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.
Public transport is very limited, consisting of a single bus route with one stop. The number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is 13.7, which is far below the Victoria figure of 1,267.9.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.42
Higher than 71% 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).
13.7
Higher than 59% 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).
1
Higher than 71% 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 typical walk to the nearest public transport stop takes about 10 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.
10
Lower than 54% 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 Purnim [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22127/purnim/topic/transport