Seaton · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Seaton

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

A 135-minute drive to the city makes Seaton an area where distance defines daily travel. Every single home here owns a motor vehicle, reflecting a total reliance on cars for getting around in this rural part of Victoria.

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📍 Seaton, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high, with nearly 30% of homes having four or more vehicles. Not a single household in the area is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian rate of 7.6%.

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.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Seaton, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 4 or more (27%) and 3 vehicles (24%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most people drive to work, and only 6% work from home, a figure far below the national average of 21%. No one in the area uses public transport to commute.

6.0% ▼ -2.2%

Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 6.1%
  • 2016: 6.4%
  • 2021: 6.0%

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: 2.6%
  • 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 Seaton, Car (driver) is the majority at 87%; Worked at home is next at 7%.

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 puts Seaton far below the state average for transport access, with zero weekly departures 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).

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The typical drive to the city takes 135 minutes, which is much higher than most other areas.

135

Higher than 87% 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 Seaton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22252/seaton/topic/transport