Woodend North · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Woodend North

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

Zero homes without a car define the transport landscape in Woodend North. This rural area relies almost entirely on private vehicles for travel, with a very high number of households owning multiple cars and a striking lack of public transit options.

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📍 Woodend North, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes here have multiple cars, with 46% owning two and another 23% owning four or more. Not a single household is without a motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian rate of 7.6%.

0.0% → —

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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In Woodend North, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 48%, followed by 4 or more (24%) and 3 vehicles (16%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is very common here at 34%, which is far above the national figure of 21%. Half of the workforce drives themselves to work, while no one uses public transport to commute.

34.0% ▲ +185.0%

Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 11.9%
  • 2016: 13.8%
  • 2021: 34.0%

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

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.8%
  • 2016: 3.1%
  • 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 Woodend North, Car (driver) is the majority at 57%; Worked at home is next at 38%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent in the area, with zero stops and routes. This puts the local access 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).

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

A 50-minute drive is typical to reach the city. However, the walk to the nearest public transport stop takes about 60 minutes, which is much higher than most other areas.

60

Higher than 85% 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.

50

Lower than 62% 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 Woodend North [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22834/woodend-north/topic/transport