6.2% ▼ -51.9%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 6.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Sea Lake · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Sea Lake
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Higher than most similar areas, the level of public transport access in Sea Lake is marked by very low usage. While the town has a few more stops than many comparable places, almost no one uses them for commuting, and the typical walk to a stop takes 78 minutes.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 39.3% owning one and 28.8% owning two. About 6.2% of households have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Sea Lake, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 40%, followed by 2 vehicles (29%) and 3 vehicles (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Cars are the primary way to get to work, with 65.1% of people driving. Very few people work from home at 7.2%, a figure far below the national level of 21%, and no one commutes via public transport.
7.2% ▲ —
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 7.2%
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.
The town relies entirely on buses, with 3 routes and 2 stops serving the area. Despite having more stops than many similar places, the 25.8 weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Victoria figure of 1,267.9.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.23
Higher than 70% 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).
25.8
Higher than 60% 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).
3
Higher than 79% 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.
Walking to the nearest public transport stop takes about 78 minutes, which is among the highest times recorded for areas of this type.
78
Higher than 95% 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 Sea Lake [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22246/sea-lake/topic/transport