Tangambalanga · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Tangambalanga

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Every single home in Tangambalanga has at least one motor vehicle, making cars essential for daily life. This reliance on driving is clear, as the vast majority of residents use a car to get to work and almost no one uses public transport.

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📍 Tangambalanga, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households have multiple cars, with 46.4% owning two and 12.2% owning four or more. This means the share of homes without a vehicle is 0.0%, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

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.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Tangambalanga, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 1 vehicle (23%) and 3 vehicles (19%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work, with 68.6% of people as the driver. Far fewer people work from home here compared to the rest of the country, at just 8.5%.

8.5% ▲ +182.4%

Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.0%
  • 2016: 3.6%
  • 2021: 8.5%

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: 1.2%
  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Tangambalanga, Car (driver) is the majority at 82%; Worked at home is next at 10%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport is very limited and consists only of a single bus route. While the area has more stops than many similar places, the number of weekly departures is far below the Victorian average.

1.10

Higher than 62% 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).

14.3

Higher than 59% 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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Reaching a public transport stop can be a challenge, with the typical walk taking 36 minutes.

36

Higher than 71% 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.

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 Tangambalanga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22441/tangambalanga/topic/transport