4.0% —
Lower than 73% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Benambra (Northern Victoria) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Benambra (Northern Victoria)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than 65% of workers in Benambra drive themselves to work, highlighting a heavy reliance on private cars. This dependence is clear across the area, where very few homes lack a vehicle and public transport use is almost non-existent.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is high here, with 40.6% of homes owning two vehicles and only 4.0% having none. This lack of car-free households is well below the state figure of 7.6% and has barely changed since 2016.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Benambra (Northern Victoria), the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people use public transport to get to work (0.3%), which is a little below the national figure. Working from home rose to 12.0% since 2016, though this remains far below the Victorian average of 25.7%.
12.0% —
Lower than 54% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% —
Lower than 98% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 access is very limited, with only 2.94 stops per 1,000 people and weekly departures far below the state figure. Services are almost entirely buses, as trains and trams are rarely used.
207
Lower than 65% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.94
Lower than 82% 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).
161.2
Lower than 86% 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 Benambra (Northern Victoria) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED20604/benambra/topic/transport