0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Serpentine · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Serpentine
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero homes in Serpentine lack a motor vehicle, a figure well below the Victorian and national averages. This highlights a total reliance on cars in a place where most households own two or more vehicles. It is a rural area where the typical commute to the city takes over two hours.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 32.9% of homes having two vehicles and 30.1% having three. This explains why not a single household in the area is without a motor vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Serpentine splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (35%) and 3 vehicles (32%), with 1 vehicle at 18%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
While 58% of workers drive, 26% work from home, which is well above the national figure. No one in the area uses public transport to get to work.
26.0% ▼ -2.2%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.6%
- 2016: 17.8%
- 2021: 26.0%
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 9.01 public transport stops per 1,000 people, far above the Victorian average. However, with only two bus routes serving the area, weekly departures are far below the state level.
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.
9.01
Higher than 87% 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).
72.1
Higher than 65% 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).
2
Higher than 75% 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.
Reaching the city is a long trip, with a typical drive time of 125 minutes. The walk to the nearest transport stop takes about 9 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.
9
Lower than 56% 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.
125
Higher than 83% 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 Serpentine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22261/serpentine/topic/transport