6.7% —
Higher than 63% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 6.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Brighton (Southern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Brighton (Southern Metropolitan)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A huge shift in work habits has transformed Brighton (Southern Metropolitan), where the number of people working from home jumped by 37 points since 2016. Now, 44.6% of the workforce operates from home, a figure far above the national average. This change stands out against a steady pattern of vehicle ownership in the area.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have one or two cars, with 42.3% owning one and 37.3% owning two. About 6.7% of households have no motor vehicle, which is a figure that has barely changed since 2016.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Brighton (Southern Metropolitan), the largest group is 1 vehicle at 42%, followed by 2 vehicles (37%) and 3 vehicles (9%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is incredibly common here at 44.6%, which is far above the 21% national figure. Meanwhile, the proportion of people commuting by public transport fell 11 points since 2016 to just 3.2%.
44.6% —
Higher than 95% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 44.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.2% —
Higher than 61% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 3.2%
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.
Public transport is quite accessible, with 1,512.1 weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is a little above the Victorian figure. The network consists of 25 routes and 278 stops, with buses making up 84% of the services.
278
Higher than 55% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.47
Lower 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).
1,512.1
Higher than 70% 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).
25
Lower than 54% 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 Brighton (Southern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED21106/brighton/topic/transport