0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Swan Marsh · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Swan Marsh
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every household in Swan Marsh owns a car, making it more reliant on private vehicles than most similar areas. While the typical resident faces a very long 122-minute drive to the city, nearly one third of the workforce avoids the trip by working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Not a single home in the area lacks a motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian rate of 7.6%. Nearly half of households have two cars, and a further 16.7% own four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Swan Marsh, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (24%) and 3 vehicles (22%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common here, with 31.6% of people doing so—a figure far above the Australian average of 21%. For those who do travel, 48.1% drive themselves, while no one uses public transport to get to work.
31.6% ▲ +18.2%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.8%
- 2016: 15.9%
- 2021: 31.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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.
There are no public transport stops or routes available in the area. This leaves the community with far fewer services than the Victorian average.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
Lower 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).
0.0
Lower 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).
0
Lower than 99% 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.
Travel times are significant in this area, with the drive to the city taking 122 minutes, which is much higher than most similar areas.
122
Higher than 82% 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).
More for Swan Marsh
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Swan Marsh [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22408/swan-marsh/topic/transport