4.3% —
Lower than 68% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Buninyong (Western Victoria) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Buninyong (Western Victoria)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer homes in Buninyong go without a car than in the rest of the country. Only 4.3% of households have no motor vehicle, making the area much more reliant on private transport than the national figure. This heavy dependence on cars is reflected in the very low use of public transport for daily commutes.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have multiple cars, with 37.9% owning two and 15.5% owning three. The proportion of households without a vehicle has barely changed since 2016, remaining well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Buninyong (Western Victoria), the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 61.1% of residents, while only 0.9% use public transport, a figure that is much lower than most areas. Working from home rose to 16.7% since 2016, though this remains well below the national figure of 21.0%.
16.7% —
Higher than 62% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.9% —
Lower than 80% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 options are limited, with 3.9 stops per 1,000 people and weekly departures that are far below the Victorian average. While the area has 263 stops, the vast majority of services are buses.
263
Higher than 51% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.90
Lower than 65% 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).
533.3
Lower than 69% 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).
22
Lower than 62% 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 Buninyong (Western Victoria) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED21608/buninyong/topic/transport