0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Yapeen · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Yapeen
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly half of Yapeen households own two cars, making private vehicles the primary way people get around. This is a place where car reliance is absolute, as every single home has at least one motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Ownership is high, with 48.5% of homes having two vehicles and another 13.1% owning four or more. This means the 0% of homes without a car is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Yapeen, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 48%, followed by 1 vehicle (21%) and 3 vehicles (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 60.8% of residents, while 20% work from home. No one here uses public transport to commute, which is well below the Australian average of 3.1%.
20.0% ▲ +21.7%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.4%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 20.0%
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: 2.1%
- 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 zero routes and zero stops. This lack of service is far below the Victorian average of 4.41 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).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to the city is a long trip, taking 85 minutes by car. For those without a vehicle, the 49-minute walk to the nearest stop is much higher than in most other areas.
49
Higher than 79% 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.
85
Higher than 60% 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 Yapeen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22907/yapeen/topic/transport