The Sisters · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in The Sisters

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

Almost every home in The Sisters owns a car, making private vehicles essential for daily life. This reliance is clear as the area has no public transport routes and a very high number of households with four or more vehicles.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home here has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the figures for Victoria and Australia. In fact, 35.9% of households own four or more vehicles.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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 The Sisters, the largest group is 4 or more at 37%, followed by 2 vehicles (32%) and 1 vehicle (21%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common here, with 35.4% of people doing so—a figure far above the national average. For those who travel, 47.7% drive, while 0.0% use public transport to get to work.

35.4%

Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 28.6%
  • 2021: 35.4%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 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.

How people get to work

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In The Sisters, Car (driver) is the majority at 53%; Worked at home is next at 40%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the Victorian figure.

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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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in The Sisters [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22502/the-sisters/topic/transport