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.
Tower Hill · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Tower Hill
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer households without cars are found in Tower Hill compared to the national figure, with every single home owning at least one vehicle. This heavy reliance on cars is seen in how people travel, as 63.3% of workers drive themselves to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is universal here, with 0% of homes lacking a motor vehicle, which is well below the state and national figures. About 40.6% of households have two vehicles, and 18.8% own four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Tower Hill, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 1 vehicle (21%) and 4 or more (21%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here commutes using public transport, which is well below the national rate of 3.1%. While 18.4% of people work from home, this is a little below the Australian figure of 21%.
18.4% —
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 21.9%
- 2021: 18.4%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is limited to a single bus route. While there are 12.05 stops per 1,000 people—far above the Victorian average—the weekly departures are far below the state figure.
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.
12.05
Higher than 88% 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).
409.6
Higher than 77% 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 a stop takes longer here than in most areas, with a typical walk of 25 minutes.
25
Higher than 63% 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 Tower Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22562/tower-hill/topic/transport