Trentham East · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Trentham East

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

Almost every home in Trentham East owns a car, making it more vehicle-reliant than most similar areas. This is a place where private transport is essential, as it has no public transport stops or routes. The typical drive to the city takes 95 minutes.

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📍 Trentham East, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Not a single home in the area is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%. Most households are well-equipped, with 34.8% owning two vehicles and 31.9% owning four or more.

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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Trentham East splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (34%) and 4 or more (31%), with 1 vehicle at 23%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common here, with 27.6% of residents doing so, which is well above the Australian figure of 21%. Other workers rely almost entirely on cars, as 0.0% of the workforce uses public transport to get to work.

27.6% —

Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 15.2%
  • 2021: 27.6%

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

0.0% —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 3.8%
  • 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 Trentham East, Car (driver) is the majority at 54%; Worked at home is next at 34%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is nonexistent in this area, with zero stops and zero routes. This means there are no weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure that is far below the Victorian average.

0.00

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting around depends on the car, and the drive to the city takes 95 minutes, which is higher than most similar areas.

95

Higher than 66% 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 Trentham East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22578/trentham-east/topic/transport