2.9% ▼ -43.4%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 2.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Rupanyup · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Rupanyup
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer homes lack a car in Rupanyup than in most of Australia, with only 2.9% of households without one. This reliance on private vehicles is clear, as the vast majority of people use a car to get to work or operate from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, and 39.9% of homes have two vehicles. In contrast, the 2.9% of households without a car is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Rupanyup, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (29%) and 4 or more (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here commutes by public transport, which is well below the national average. Instead, 56.9% of workers drive and 21.3% work from home, a figure about the same as the rest of Australia.
21.3% ▲ +28.4%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.6%
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 21.3%
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.
While there are 3 public transport stops and 6 routes, which is more than most similar areas, the service is infrequent. With only 97.2 weekly departures per 1,000 people, this is far below the Victorian average.
3
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.50
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).
97.2
Higher than 68% 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).
6
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.
Getting to a transit stop is difficult for residents, as the typical walk to the nearest stop takes 45 minutes. This is much higher than in most other areas.
45
Higher than 77% 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 Rupanyup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22214/rupanyup/topic/transport