7.6% ▼ -23.4%
Higher than 71% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 9.0%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Barwon · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Barwon
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer than 1,314 weekly public transport departures per 1,000 people are found in Barwon compared to the New South Wales figure. This huge gap highlights a region where most people rely on their own cars to get around. While the area has a fair number of routes, actual service levels are very low.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own at least one car, with 36.4% having one and 34.5% having two. About 7.6% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is higher than most areas, though this figure fell 2.3 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Barwon splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (36%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 62% of people as the driver. Very few people use public transport to commute (0.8%), and the 11.6% who work from home is well below the national figure of 21%.
11.6% ▼ -1.0%
Lower than 56% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 9.6%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.8% ▼ -6.4%
Lower than 80% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 0.9%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 mostly provided by buses, but access is poor. There are only 2.22 stops per 1,000 people and 53.3 weekly departures per 1,000 people, both of which are far below the state averages.
164
Lower than 74% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.22
Lower than 88% of state electorate areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
53.3
Lower than 95% of state electorate 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).
52
Higher than 86% of state electorate areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Barwon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10006/barwon/topic/transport