6.6% ▼ -9.2%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.3%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Quarry Hill · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Quarry Hill
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car ownership and travel patterns in Quarry Hill have remained steady over the last decade. The area is heavily reliant on private vehicles, with 55.9% of workers driving themselves to work. While public transport stops are common, very few people actually use them for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 43% of homes have one vehicle and 34% have two. Only 6.6% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas but about the same as the Victorian average.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Quarry Hill, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 43%, followed by 2 vehicles (34%) and 3 vehicles (11%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common for 17.8% of residents, though this is well below the Victorian figure of 25.7%. Very few people use public transport to get to work, at just 0.7%, which is a little below the national average.
17.8% ▲ +562.8%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 17.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▼ -64.5%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 0.7%
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.
Quarry Hill has 20 public transport stops and 9 routes, which is larger than about 88% of similar areas. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is well below the Victorian figure.
20
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
8.46
Higher than 86% 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).
846.1
Higher than 85% 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).
9
Higher than 86% 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.
A three-minute walk to the nearest stop is much lower than most areas. Despite this easy access, the drive time to the city is 94 minutes, which is higher than most areas.
3
Lower than 79% 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.
94
Higher than 65% 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 Quarry Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22134/quarry-hill/topic/transport