4.3% —
Lower than 68% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Ferntree Gully (Eastern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Ferntree Gully (Eastern Metropolitan)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more people work from home in Ferntree Gully than in most similar areas. While the suburb is well served by public transport, it remains heavily reliant on cars for daily travel. This is seen in the very low number of households without a vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 4.3% of homes here have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households are well equipped for driving, with 43.3% owning two vehicles and 13.5% owning three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Ferntree Gully (Eastern Metropolitan), the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has surged to 26.4%, a rise of 23 points since 2016. This shift is reflected in the low number of people using public transport to get to work, which fell to 1.8% in the same period.
26.4% —
Higher than 78% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 3.8%
- 2021: 26.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.8% —
Lower than 60% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 1.8%
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 access is a little above the state average, with 5.19 stops per 1,000 people. There are 312 stops and 43 routes serving the area, with buses making up nearly all of the available services.
312
Higher than 64% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.19
Higher than 62% 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).
1,488.4
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).
43
Higher than 79% 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 Ferntree Gully (Eastern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED22901/ferntree-gully/topic/transport