3.3% ▲ +25.3%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 3.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Shelford · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Shelford
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people live without a car in Shelford than the national figure, with only 3.3% of homes lacking a vehicle. This makes the area heavily dependent on private transport, which is reflected in the total absence of public transport options for residents.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households here own multiple cars, with 41.8% having two and 17.6% owning four or more. This high rate of ownership means the share of homes without a vehicle is well below the Victorian and national figures.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Shelford, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 3 vehicles (21%) and 4 or more (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here commutes using public transport, while 65.5% of workers drive themselves to work. About 18.3% of the workforce works from home, which is well below the Victorian figure of 25.7%.
18.3% ▼ -22.2%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.5%
- 2016: 23.3%
- 2021: 18.3%
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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This leaves the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people far below the Victorian average.
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.
The typical drive time to the city from Shelford is 81 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.
81
Higher than 57% 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).
More for Shelford
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Shelford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22272/shelford/topic/transport