Samaria · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Samaria

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

More than 60% of working residents in Samaria drive to work, reflecting a heavy reliance on cars in this area. This is a highly car-dependent community where every single home owns at least one motor vehicle, far below the state and national figures for households without a car.

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📍 Samaria, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Almost half of all homes have three or more motor vehicles, with 31% owning exactly three. Not a single household in the area is without a vehicle, which is well below the 7.6% of Victorian homes that lack one.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Samaria splits fairly evenly between 3 vehicles (30%) and 1 vehicle (27%), with 2 vehicles at 27%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is very common here, with 46.4% of residents doing so—a figure far above the national average of 21%. Because of this, nobody in the area uses public transport to get to work.

46.4%

Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 42.9%
  • 2021: 46.4%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Samaria, Car (driver) is the majority at 57%; Worked at home is next at 43%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

There are no public transport stops or routes in Samaria. This lack of access is far below the Victorian average of 4.41 stops per 1,000 people.

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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).

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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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Samaria [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22228/samaria/topic/transport