0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.9%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Woodvale · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Woodvale
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
About 61% of working residents in Woodvale drive themselves to work. This car-reliant area has no homes without a vehicle and almost no access to public transport, making private travel essential for daily life.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Woodvale has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian and national figures for carless households. Most homes are heavily equipped, with 85.6% owning two or more vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Woodvale splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (32%) and 3 vehicles (27%), with 4 or more at 26%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here than in the rest of the state, at just 8.9%. Very few people walk to work, and no one uses public transport to commute.
8.9% ▼ -17.6%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.8%
- 2016: 8.5%
- 2021: 8.9%
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: 1.3%
- 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 the area, with no routes or stops available. This leaves Woodvale far below the Victorian average for both the number of stops and weekly departures 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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting around is a challenge for those without a car, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 83 minutes. The drive to the city is also much longer than in most areas, taking about 110 minutes.
83
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.
110
Higher than 75% 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 Woodvale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22846/woodvale/topic/transport