2.5% ▲ +35.3%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Toongabbie · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Toongabbie
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people rely on cars here than in most similar areas, with Toongabbie (Vic.) showing a strong preference for private transport. Only 2.5% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure well below both the state and national averages.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own multiple cars, with 82.3% having two or more vehicles. This explains why so few homes—only 2.5%—are without a car, which is much lower than the 7.6% seen across Victoria.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Toongabbie, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 36%, followed by 3 vehicles (26%) and 4 or more (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 70.5% of residents. Very few people work from home at 9.4%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%, and only 1.0% use public transport.
9.4% ▲ +113.4%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.4%
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 9.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.0% ▼ -53.3%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 1.0%
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.
While the area has more public transport routes and stops than about 70% of similar places, access remains limited. All services are buses, but weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the state average.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.92
Higher than 61% 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).
31.3
Higher than 61% 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).
1
Higher than 71% 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 to the city is a long trip, with drive times among the highest for similar areas at 166 minutes. This difficulty is mirrored by the walk to the nearest stop, which takes 59 minutes and is much higher than most areas.
59
Higher than 85% 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.
166
Higher than 93% 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 Toongabbie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22543/toongabbie/topic/transport