5.2% —
Lower than 55% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 5.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Carrum (South-Eastern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Carrum (South-Eastern Metropolitan)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Working from home has surged in Carrum, with the share of people doing so jumping 17 percentage points since 2016. This shift is part of a broader change in how residents get around, as the area relies heavily on private cars for daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have at least one car, and 41% own two. Only 5.2% of households have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the Victorian figure of 7.6% and has barely changed since 2016.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Carrum (South-Eastern Metropolitan) splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (41%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Car travel is the most common way to get to work, used by 58.3% of residents. Meanwhile, those using public transport fell to 1.5%, which is lower than most areas and down from 4.6% in 2016.
21.1% —
Higher than 72% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 21.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.5% —
Lower than 66% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 1.5%
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.
There are 299 public transport stops in the area, though only 13 different routes operate here. The number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is 1,043.3, which is a little below the Victorian figure of 1,267.9.
299
Higher than 60% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.22
Lower than 58% 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).
1,043.3
Higher than 52% 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).
13
Lower than 81% 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 Carrum (South-Eastern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED21805/carrum/topic/transport