3.7% ▼ -42.9%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.5%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 3.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tootgarook · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Tootgarook
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Very few homes without a car are found in Tootgarook, where only 3.7% of households lack a motor vehicle. This is well below the Victorian and national figures, highlighting a strong reliance on private transport in this part of the Mornington Peninsula.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own multiple cars, with 42% having two vehicles and 10.4% having three. This high level of car ownership is reflected in the fact that very few homes have no vehicle at all.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Tootgarook splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (42%) and 1 vehicle (38%), with 3 vehicles at 10%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 57.4% of residents. While 17.5% work from home, this is well below the Victorian figure of 25.7%, and only 0.4% use public transport for their commute.
17.5% ▲ +395.4%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 17.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -59.8%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.1%
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 0.4%
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.
The area has 28 public transport stops, which is more than 91% of similar areas, and 8.81 stops per 1,000 people is far above the Victorian average. Despite this, all available routes are buses, and no one can reach other people within 45 minutes using transit.
28
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
8.81
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).
1,218.1
Higher than 87% 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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
A typical trip to the city takes 66 minutes. However, getting to local transit is easier than in most areas, with a typical walk to the nearest stop taking only 5 minutes.
5
Lower than 68% 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.
66
Lower than 52% 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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
- 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 Tootgarook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22550/tootgarook/topic/transport