6.9% ▲ —
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 6.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Scotts Creek · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Scotts Creek
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A huge 80-minute walk to the nearest stop makes Scotts Creek very reliant on cars. Most homes here have multiple vehicles, and almost nobody uses public transport to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is high, with 30.6% of homes owning four or more vehicles. About 6.9% of households have no motor vehicle, which is about the same as the state and national figures.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Scotts Creek splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (32%) and 4 or more (29%), with 3 vehicles at 17%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here commutes by public transport, while 21.7% of people work from home. The most common way to get to work is driving, at 49.2%.
21.7% ▼ -29.3%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.7%
- 2016: 26.2%
- 2021: 21.7%
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.
The area has one bus route and one stop, which is more than many similar areas. However, weekly departures are far below the Victorian figure.
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.
4.67
Higher than 76% 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).
130.8
Higher than 72% 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 walk to the nearest public transport stop takes about 80 minutes.
80
Higher than 97% 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 Scotts Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22245/scotts-creek/topic/transport