25.4% ▼ -6.4%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.1%
- 2016: 26.1%
- 2021: 25.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
St Kilda · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in St Kilda
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Working from home is the most common way to commute in St Kilda, with 40.3% of workers doing so. This is far above the national figure of 21%, marking the area as a major hub for remote work and high public transport use.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Over a quarter of households (25.4%) do not own a car, which is far above the 7.6% seen across Victoria. Most homes that do have a vehicle own only one.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In St Kilda, 1 vehicle is the majority at 56%; No vehicle is next at 25%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use for work is well above the national figure at 8.7%. This trend, combined with the high rate of working from home, helps explain why so many residents live without a car.
40.3% ▲ +914.1%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 40.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
8.7% ▼ -67.9%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.3%
- 2016: 29.0%
- 2021: 8.7%
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 is exceptionally well connected, with 97 stops and 15 routes providing a huge number of weekly departures. Trams and light rail make up 76.5% of the local network.
97
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.98
Higher than 77% 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).
3,683.3
Higher 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).
15
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
122,617
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
372,246
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
41
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport + walking time, in minutes, from the area to its capital city centre on a weekday morning (R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network). Blank where no scheduled service connects the area to the city.
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting around is very efficient, with a typical one-minute walk to the nearest stop. The drive time to the city is also among the lowest at just 9 minutes.
1
Lower than 99% 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.
9
Lower than 96% 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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- 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 St Kilda [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22343/st-kilda/topic/transport