12.3% ▼ -25.6%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.5%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 12.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Sunshine · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Sunshine
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Rapid city trips and a short walk to a stop define daily life in Sunshine. This area is highly connected, with a tiny one-minute walk to the nearest transit stop and a fast 14-minute drive to the city. Such accessibility is reflected in the high number of households—12.3%—that do not own a car, which is well above the national figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Nearly half of homes have one vehicle, while 30.8% have two. Far more households here live without a motor vehicle than in most other areas, sitting well above the Victorian rate of 7.6%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Sunshine, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 45%, followed by 2 vehicles (31%) and No vehicle (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
About 7.7% of workers use public transport, which is well above the national figure of 3.1%. While 24.1% of people work from home, the most common way to get to a job is still driving, at 44.9%.
24.1% ▲ +1156.6%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 24.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
7.7% ▼ -48.7%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.1%
- 2016: 16.0%
- 2021: 7.7%
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.
Sunshine is a major hub with 29 routes and 96 stops, providing far more transport options than most areas. The 5,512.7 weekly departures per 1,000 people is far above the Victorian figure of 1,267.9.
96
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.
10.16
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).
5,512.7
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).
29
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
95,809
Higher than 89% 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).
291,459
Higher than 88% 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).
43
Lower than 76% 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 into the city is very efficient, with a drive time of just 14 minutes. This is much lower than in most other areas, as is the one-minute walk to the nearest stop.
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.
14
Lower than 90% 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 Sunshine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22395/sunshine/topic/transport