Vaughan · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Vaughan

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

Almost 43% of people working in Vaughan do so from home, a figure far above the national average. This reflects a small, car-dependent community where public transport is almost non-existent. Every single home in the area owns at least one motor vehicle.

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📍 Vaughan, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

No one in Vaughan is without a car, which is well below the Victorian and national figures. Most homes have one or two vehicles, while about 17% have three.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Vaughan, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 46%, followed by 2 vehicles (38%) and 3 vehicles (17%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is very common here at 42.9%, which is far above the national rate of 21%. For those who do leave for work, half drive themselves, while no one uses public transport.

How people get to work

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In Vaughan, Car (driver) is the majority at 54%; Worked at home is next at 46%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state figure.

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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).

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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 is difficult without a car, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 82 minutes. It takes 99 minutes to drive to the city.

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Higher than 98% 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.

99

Higher than 68% 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 Vaughan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22623/vaughan/topic/transport