6.3% ▼ -35.0%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.7%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 6.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Stawell · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Stawell
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A shift in how people move is evident in Stawell, where public transport infrastructure is now much stronger than in most similar areas. While 58 stops serve the town, very few people actually use them for work, with only 0.2% of the workforce commuting via public transport.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 34.9% owning two and 12.4% owning three. However, 6.3% of households have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Stawell splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Getting to work is overwhelmingly done by car, with 65.2% of people driving. This explains why only 7.3% of the workforce works from home, a figure far below both the Victorian and national averages.
7.3% ▲ +127.5%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 7.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -67.6%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.2%
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.
Stawell has 9.32 stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the Victorian figure of 4.41. Despite having 12 routes and a high number of stops, the weekly number of departures per 1,000 people is far below the state average.
58
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
9.32
Higher than 87% 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).
542.3
Higher than 79% 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).
12
Higher than 86% 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 a stop is very easy here, with the typical walk to the nearest one taking just one minute, which is much lower than in most other areas.
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.
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 Stawell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22354/stawell/topic/transport