2.5% ▲ +126.0%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.1%
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Sailors Gully · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Sailors Gully
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A strong reliance on private cars defines transport in Sailors Gully, where only 2.5% of homes have no motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure of 7.4%, reflecting a community that depends almost entirely on driving to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes are well-equipped for travel, with 42.1% owning two vehicles and 13.3% owning four or more. Only 2.5% of households get by without a car, which is much lower than the Victorian average of 7.6%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Sailors Gully, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (25%) and 3 vehicles (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 67.5% of residents being the driver. This is reinforced by the fact that 0% of people use public transport, and the 11% who work from home is far below the Victorian figure of 25.7%.
11.0% ▲ +496.4%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 11.0%
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: 1.1%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 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 non-existent here, with zero routes and stops serving the area. This means there are no weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure that is far below the state average.
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 around is a challenge without a car, as it takes 22 minutes to walk to the nearest stop. The drive time to the city is also high at 102 minutes.
22
Higher than 60% 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.
102
Higher than 70% 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 Sailors Gully [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22224/sailors-gully/topic/transport