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.
Sulky · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Sulky
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 71% of workers in Sulky drive themselves to work, reflecting a heavy reliance on cars. While the area has very high levels of public transport access compared to the state, almost no one uses it for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Sulky has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the figures for Victoria and Australia. Most households have multiple cars, with 33.8% owning two and 25% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Sulky, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 35%, followed by 4 or more (26%) and 3 vehicles (25%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one in the area uses public transport to get to work, and only 11.6% work from home, which is far below the Victorian figure. Most people rely on driving, though 5.1% walk to their jobs.
11.6% ▼ -18.8%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 11.6%
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: 4.7%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport access is among the highest at this level, with 38.46 stops per 1,000 people and weekly departures far above the state average. All available services are provided by buses.
9
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
38.46
Higher 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).
3,893.2
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).
1
Higher than 71% 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 walk to the nearest transport stop takes 7 minutes. It takes 76 minutes to drive from the area to the city, which is around the middle for similar areas.
7
Lower than 61% 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.
76
Higher than 54% 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 Sulky [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22389/sulky/topic/transport