2.6% ▼ -3.5%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tuerong · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Tuerong
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A massive gap in public transport access defines Tuerong, where no one uses transit to get to work. Most residents rely on private cars or work from home, with 30.3% of the workforce doing the latter. This is well above both the Victorian and national figures.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Private cars are essential here, as only 2.6% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure. Most households are well-equipped, with 67.5% owning three or more vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Tuerong, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 3 vehicles (23%) and 4 or more (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common, with 30.3% of people doing so, which is well above the Australian average of 21%. No one in Tuerong commutes by public transport, a figure well below the national average.
30.3% ▲ +104.8%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.8%
- 2016: 21.5%
- 2021: 30.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 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 virtually non-existent in the area, with zero stops and zero routes. This puts the number of departures per 1,000 people far below the Victorian figure.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
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).
0
Lower than 99% 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.
Getting around without a car is difficult, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 74 minutes, among the highest for similar areas. The drive time to the city is 51 minutes.
74
Higher than 93% 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.
51
Lower than 61% 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 Tuerong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22584/tuerong/topic/transport