6.4% —
Higher than 61% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 6.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Bentleigh (Southern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Bentleigh (Southern Metropolitan)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A huge 38.3% of working residents in Bentleigh (Southern Metropolitan) now work from home, a massive jump from just 5.2% in 2016. This shift to home-based work is far above the Victorian and Australian figures, making it one of the most prominent trends in the area's daily travel habits.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 40.7% owning two vehicles. Only 6.4% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that has barely changed since 2016 and is a little below the state average.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Bentleigh (Southern Metropolitan) splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (41%) and 1 vehicle (39%), with 3 vehicles at 10%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is now almost as common as driving alone to work, as 38.3% work from home while 39.4% drive. Meanwhile, the share of people using public transport to get to work fell sharply from 11.0% in 2016 to 3.0% in 2021.
38.3% —
Higher than 90% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 38.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.0% —
Higher than 58% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 11.0%
- 2021: 3.0%
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.
Bentleigh (Southern Metropolitan) has a high number of weekly public transport departures per 1,000 people, which is about the same as the Victorian average. The network is dominated by buses, which make up 91.4% of the available modes.
309
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.
4.63
Higher than 51% 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).
1,266.9
Higher than 61% 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).
29
Higher than 57% 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 Bentleigh (Southern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED20906/bentleigh/topic/transport