12.3% —
Higher than 88% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 14.1%
- 2021: 12.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Footscray (Western Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Footscray (Western Metropolitan)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more people live without cars in Footscray than in most similar areas. This is an area with exceptional transit access, featuring some of the highest numbers of public transport departures in the region. While 12.3% of homes have no motor vehicle, the area is also seeing a massive shift toward remote work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 12.3% of homes here have no motor vehicle, which is well above the national figure of 7.4%. This is much higher than most other areas, though the proportion fell by 1.8 percentage points since 2016.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Footscray (Western Metropolitan), the largest group is 1 vehicle at 46%, followed by 2 vehicles (30%) and No vehicle (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has surged to 29.7%, a rise of 27 percentage points since 2016 that is well above the national figure. Public transport use for work is also a little above the national average at 5.0%, though this fell by 9.2 percentage points over the last five years.
29.7% —
Higher than 83% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 29.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
5.0% —
Higher than 81% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 14.2%
- 2021: 5.0%
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.
Footscray is very well connected, with 485 public transport stops and 46 routes. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are far above the state figure, ranking among the highest for areas of this size.
485
Higher than 88% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.79
Higher than 74% 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).
2,777.5
Higher than 94% 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).
46
Higher than 82% 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 Footscray (Western Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED23007/footscray/topic/transport