3.3% —
Lower than 82% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 3.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bass (Eastern Victoria) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Bass (Eastern Victoria)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 3.3% of homes in Bass (Eastern Victoria) have no motor vehicle, showing how essential cars are for daily life here. The area is heavily reliant on private transport, which is consistent with a very low number of people using public transport to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high, with 43.6% of homes owning two vehicles and 6.9% having four or more. The share of homes without a vehicle has fallen to 3.3%, which is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Bass (Eastern Victoria), the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, with 60.6% of people being the driver. Those working from home rose by 12 points since 2016 to 17.2%, while public transport use fell to 1.4%, a little below the national figure.
17.2% —
Higher than 63% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 17.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.4% —
Lower than 68% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 1.4%
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.
While there are 493 public transport stops, weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the Victorian average. Most of these services are buses, as trains make up only 5.2% of the available modes.
493
Higher than 88% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.26
Lower than 57% 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).
545.8
Lower than 68% 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).
32
Higher than 63% 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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Bass (Eastern Victoria) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED20302/bass/topic/transport