2.3% —
Lower than 93% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 2.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Eltham (Eastern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Eltham (Eastern Metropolitan)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly half of all households in Eltham have two motor vehicles, reflecting a strong reliance on cars for getting around. While car use is common, a huge 33.6% of the workforce now works from home, which is far above the national figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few people here get by without a car, with only 2.3% of homes having no motor vehicle. This is well below the Victorian and Australian figures and has barely changed since 2016.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Eltham (Eastern Metropolitan), the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 1 vehicle (28%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has surged by 28 percentage points since 2016, with 33.6% of people now doing so. In contrast, those using public transport to get to work fell to 1.9%, which is a little below the state and national figures.
33.6% —
Higher than 87% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 33.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.9% —
Lower than 59% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 1.9%
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.
Eltham has 18 public transport routes and 224 stops, which is smaller than many similar areas. However, the weekly number of departures per 1,000 people is 1,483, which is a little above the Victorian average.
224
Lower than 60% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.74
Lower than 69% 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).
1,483.0
Higher 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).
18
Lower than 72% 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 Eltham (Eastern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED22501/eltham/topic/transport