7.2% —
Higher than 68% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 7.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Burwood (Southern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Burwood (Southern Metropolitan)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 40% of people in Burwood (Southern Metropolitan) work from home, which is one of the highest rates for this type of area. This shift is part of a dramatic rise in home-based work since 2016. While public transport access is very high, the number of people using it to commute has fallen sharply.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 7.2% of homes here have no motor vehicle, which is higher than in most similar areas. The most common setup is two cars per household, though the share of homes without a car has fallen slightly since 2016.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Burwood (Southern Metropolitan) splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (38%), with 3 vehicles at 10%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far more common here than in the rest of Victoria or Australia, with 38.4% of workers doing so. In contrast, only 3.6% of people use public transport to get to work, a figure that has fallen by 9.6 points since 2016.
38.4% —
Higher than 90% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 38.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.6% —
Higher than 68% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 3.6%
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.
Burwood (Southern Metropolitan) has a very high number of weekly public transport departures per 1,000 people compared to most areas. There are 306 stops across 27 routes, with buses making up 70.5% of the available services.
306
Higher than 62% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.44
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).
1,645.2
Higher than 74% 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).
27
Higher than 51% 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 Burwood (Southern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED21706/burwood/topic/transport