6.6% ▲ +4.0%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Vectis · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Vectis
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
About 68% of workers in Vectis drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. This reliance on private transport is clear across the area, where the vast majority of homes own multiple vehicles and public transport is entirely absent.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households are well equipped for travel, with 83.6% owning three or more motor vehicles. While 6.6% of homes have no vehicle, this is much higher than in most similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Vectis splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (33%) and 3 vehicles (32%), with 4 or more at 20%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%. Working from home is also much less common here than across Australia, at 17%.
17.0% ▼ -23.5%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.2%
- 2016: 13.9%
- 2021: 17.0%
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: 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 non-existent in Vectis, with zero stops and zero routes. This lack of access is far below the Victorian average of 4.4 stops per 1,000 people.
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).
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)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Vectis [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22624/vectis/topic/transport