Staghorn Flat · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Staghorn Flat

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

More people rely on cars here than in most similar areas, making Staghorn Flat a place where private transport is essential. Every single home in the area has at least one motor vehicle, and two-thirds of households own three or more cars.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high, with 67% of homes owning three or more vehicles. This means far fewer homes are without a car compared to the state and national figures.

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.

Motor vehicles per home

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Staghorn Flat splits fairly evenly between 3 vehicles (31%) and 4 or more (31%), with 2 vehicles at 27%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 62.9% of residents. While 16.5% work from home, this is well below the typical figures for Victoria and Australia, and no one here commutes by public transport.

16.5% ▲ +120.2%

Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 7.5%
  • 2016: 9.3%
  • 2021: 16.5%

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: 1.7%
  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Staghorn Flat, Car (driver) is the majority at 75%; Worked at home is next at 20%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport is limited to a single bus route and one stop. Although this is more than some similar areas, the number of weekly departures is far below the Victorian average.

2.72

Higher than 68% 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).

81.5

Higher than 66% 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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting around on foot is difficult, as it takes a typical resident 27 minutes to walk to the nearest public transport stop.

27

Higher than 64% 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.

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 Staghorn Flat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22349/staghorn-flat/topic/transport