3.4% ▼ -40.3%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.8%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 3.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Winchelsea · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Winchelsea
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Reliance on cars has remained high in Winchelsea, where a small number of homes without a vehicle is well below the national figure. Most households here own multiple cars to get around, while very few residents use public transport for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very common, with 40.7% of homes having two vehicles and 11.8% owning four or more. Only 3.4% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian and national figures.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Winchelsea, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (29%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, with 62.8% as the driver. Those working from home make up 14.7% of the workforce, which is far below the Victorian average of 25.7%.
14.7% ▲ +127.1%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.5%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.3% ▲ +166.8%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 1.3%
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 dominated by trains, which account for 87.5% of the mode share. While there are two routes and two stops, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the state average.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.81
Higher than 60% 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).
32.6
Higher than 61% 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).
2
Higher than 75% 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.
Reaching the nearest transport stop takes a typical resident 43 minutes on foot, which is much higher than in most areas. The drive time to the city is around 79 minutes.
43
Higher than 75% 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.
79
Higher than 56% 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 Winchelsea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22802/winchelsea/topic/transport