6.6% ▲ +206.3%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 8.5%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Talbot · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Talbot
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A drive time of 101 minutes to the city makes Talbot a very distant suburb. Most residents rely heavily on their own cars to get around, as very few people work from home compared to other areas.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Around 6.6% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas. However, many households are well-equipped, with 35.5% owning two vehicles and 17.5% owning three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Talbot splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (35%) and 1 vehicle (31%), with 3 vehicles at 17%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here commutes to work by public transport, and only 9.2% work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%. Most people drive themselves to work, accounting for 60.7% of trips.
9.2% ▲ +18.4%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 9.2%
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: 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.
Talbot has 8.85 public transport stops per 1,000 people, far above the Victorian average. Despite having four stops and three routes, the number of weekly departures is far below the state figure.
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.
8.85
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).
154.9
Higher than 72% 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).
3
Higher than 79% 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 about 9 minutes, which is around the middle for areas of this type.
9
Lower than 56% 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.
101
Higher than 70% 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 Talbot [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22423/talbot/topic/transport