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.
Shady Creek · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Shady Creek
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every home in Shady Creek has at least one car, with 41.5% of households owning two. This is a car-dependent area where the typical journey to the city takes 84 minutes, and public transport is virtually non-existent.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is universal here, as 0.0% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%. Nearly 30% of households own four or more vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Shady Creek, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 4 or more (28%) and 3 vehicles (22%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common for 27.2% of residents, a figure well above the national average of 21.0%. Because no one uses public transport to commute, 45.6% of workers drive and 13.6% walk to their jobs.
27.2% ▲ +12.4%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.2%
- 2016: 12.4%
- 2021: 27.2%
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: 3.3%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 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.
Public transport is completely absent in Shady Creek, with zero stops or routes. This is far below the Victorian average of 4.41 stops 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.
Getting around is dominated by private cars, especially given the 84-minute drive time to the city, which is higher than in most similar areas.
84
Higher than 59% 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 Shady Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22266/shady-creek/topic/transport