1.5% ▲ —
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Ross Creek · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Ross Creek
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A 43-minute walk to the nearest public transport stop makes Ross Creek very car-dependent. Almost every home here owns a vehicle, with most households keeping two or more cars to get around. This reliance on driving is clear in the commute data, where nearly 70% of workers drive themselves to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few homes lack a car, with only 1.5% of households without one—a figure well below the national average of 7.4%. Most residents keep multiple vehicles, as 40.2% of homes have two cars and 24% have four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Ross Creek, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 4 or more (24%) and 3 vehicles (23%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 69.8% of people, while 10% work from home. This working-from-home rate is far below the Victorian figure of 25.7%, and no one here commutes using public transport.
10.0% ▲ +155.5%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 10.0%
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: 0.8%
- 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.
The area has one bus route and one stop, which is more than many similar areas. However, there are only 3.3 weekly departures per 1,000 people, a number far below the Victorian average 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.
0.82
Higher than 60% 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).
3.3
Higher than 58% 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.
Getting around without a car is difficult, as the typical walk to the nearest stop takes 43 minutes. This is much higher than most other areas, and the drive time to the city is 93 minutes.
43
Higher than 75% 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.
93
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).
More for Ross Creek
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Ross Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22203/ross-creek/topic/transport