4.5% —
Lower than 66% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 4.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bayswater (Eastern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Bayswater (Eastern Metropolitan)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Few people in Bayswater get around without a car, as only 4.5% of homes have no motor vehicle. This reliance on private transport is matched by a shift in work habits, with a quarter of the workforce now operating from home. The area blends a high level of car ownership with a moderately connected public transport network.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own at least one car, with 41.1% owning two and 12.3% owning three. Very few homes are without a vehicle, a figure that is well below the Victorian average of 7.6% and has barely changed since 2016.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Bayswater (Eastern Metropolitan), the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (36%) and 3 vehicles (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has surged to 25.2%, which is well above the national figure and represents a 22 point increase since 2016. Meanwhile, only 2.2% of people use public transport to get to work, a figure that is about the same as the state and national averages.
25.2% —
Higher than 77% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 25.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.2% —
Lower than 54% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 2.2%
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.
Bayswater has 308 public transport stops across 32 routes, which is more than about 63% of similar areas. However, with 938.5 weekly departures per 1,000 people, service frequency is well below the Victorian figure of 1,267.9.
308
Higher than 63% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.76
Higher than 53% 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).
938.5
Lower than 53% 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Bayswater (Eastern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED20401/bayswater/topic/transport