Winchelsea South · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Winchelsea South

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

Every single home in Winchelsea South has at least one motor vehicle, reflecting a total reliance on cars for travel. This is a stark contrast to the national figure, where about 7% of households have no vehicle. The area's isolation is further highlighted by a complete lack of public transport options.

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📍 Winchelsea South, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high here, with over half of all homes owning three or more vehicles. This is well below the Victorian and Australian rates for households without a car, which sit at 7.6% and 7.4% respectively.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Winchelsea South splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (29%) and 3 vehicles (27%), with 4 or more at 27%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Nearly 30% of people work from home, which is well above the national figure of 21%. For those who do travel, 57.9% drive alone, while no one in the area uses public transport to get to work.

29.5% ▲ +74.4%

Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 16.9%
  • 2016: 29.1%
  • 2021: 29.5%

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

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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.

How people get to work

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In Winchelsea South, Car (driver) is the majority at 64%; Worked at home is next at 33%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent in Winchelsea South, with zero stops and routes available. This is far below the Victorian average of 4.41 stops per 1,000 people.

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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.

The typical drive time to the city is 82 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.

82

Higher than 58% 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 South [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22803/winchelsea-south/topic/transport