12.6% —
Higher than 88% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 12.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Essendon (Western Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Essendon (Western Metropolitan)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more people work from home in Essendon (Western Metropolitan) than in the rest of the state, with 37.1% doing so. This shift is part of a broader trend where car reliance is lower than usual and public transport access is high. The area's transport profile is marked by a significant gap in home-working rates compared to the national figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Roughly 12.6% of homes here have no motor vehicle, which is well above the Victorian figure of 7.6%. This proportion of car-free households has remained steady since 2016, with 45.9% of homes owning just one vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Essendon (Western Metropolitan), the largest group is 1 vehicle at 46%, followed by 2 vehicles (30%) and No vehicle (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home rose sharply by 33 points since 2016 to reach 37.1%, a figure far above the national average. During the same period, the number of people commuting by public transport fell 13 points to 5.5%, though this remains a little above the state figure.
37.1% —
Higher than 89% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 37.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
5.5% —
Higher than 86% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 18.2%
- 2021: 5.5%
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.
Public transport is highly accessible, with weekly departures per 1,000 people being well above the Victorian figure. This is supported by 343 stops and 27 different routes, with buses and trams making up the vast majority of services.
343
Higher than 72% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.90
Higher than 56% 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).
1,987.6
Higher than 85% 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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Essendon (Western Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED22607/essendon/topic/transport