6.4% ▼ -24.4%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.5%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 6.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Spring Gully · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Spring Gully
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Just a two-minute walk to the nearest stop makes Spring Gully very accessible for local travel. Most residents rely on cars, though the area has a higher number of public transport stops than most similar places. This mix of high vehicle ownership and decent transit access shapes how people move around the neighbourhood.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost 39% of homes have two vehicles and 38% have one. While 6.4% of households have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas, this is still a little below the Victorian figure of 7.6%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Spring Gully splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (38%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, with 60.4% as the driver. The 17.7% of residents who work from home is well below the national figure of 21%, and only 0.4% use public transport to commute.
17.7% ▲ +582.2%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 17.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -72.9%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 0.4%
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.
With 17 stops and 4 routes, Spring Gully has more public transport infrastructure than about 85% of similar areas. However, the 902 weekly departures per 1,000 people is well below the Victorian figure of 1,267.9.
17
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.50
Higher than 79% 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).
902.0
Higher than 86% 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).
4
Higher than 82% 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 to the city takes a typical 99 minutes, which is higher than most areas. In contrast, the walk to the nearest stop is much shorter than in most similar places.
2
Lower than 86% 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.
99
Higher than 68% 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 Spring Gully [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22320/spring-gully/topic/transport