2.6% ▲ +15.8%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Taggerty · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Taggerty
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Working from home has become a major part of life in Taggerty, where 30.9% of residents now do so. This trend is well above the national figure and helps explain why most households here rely heavily on private cars to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Private cars are essential here, as 42.8% of homes have two vehicles and 17.8% have four or more. Only 2.6% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian and national figures.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Taggerty, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (24%) and 4 or more (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Over half of workers drive to get to their jobs, while 30.9% work from home, a rate well above the Australian average. Very few use public transport to commute, with only 2.2% doing so.
30.9% ▲ +75.3%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.6%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 30.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.2% ▲ —
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.2%
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.
Taggerty has 9.88 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the Victorian average. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state figure, and all services are buses.
4
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
9.88
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).
108.6
Higher than 69% 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).
2
Higher than 75% 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 around is challenging, as the walk to the nearest transport stop takes 43 minutes, which is much higher than most areas. The drive time to the city is also higher than most areas, taking 89 minutes.
43
Higher than 75% 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.
89
Higher than 62% 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 Taggerty [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22419/taggerty/topic/transport