0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Sandy Point · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Sandy Point
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A 128-minute drive to the city defines the remote nature of Sandy Point. This isolated location means residents rely almost entirely on their own cars to get around. Over a quarter of the workforce avoids the commute entirely by working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Sandy Point has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the state and national figures. Most households have two vehicles, while 15.7% have three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Sandy Point, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 1 vehicle (34%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here commutes by public transport. Instead, 54.1% of workers drive to their jobs, and 25.2% work from home, a figure well above the national average.
25.2% ▲ +185.4%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 25.2%
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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This lack of access is far below the Victorian average, with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people.
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.
Driving to the city takes 128 minutes, which is much higher than most similar areas.
128
Higher than 85% 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 Sandy Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22236/sandy-point/topic/transport