5.8% —
Higher than 55% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 5.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Forest Hill (Eastern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Forest Hill (Eastern Metropolitan)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A far higher share of people work from home in Forest Hill than across Australia, with 33% of workers avoiding a daily commute. This shift is part of a broader trend where the area has become much more reliant on home-based work over the last five years.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households here own at least one car, and 42.6% have two. Only 5.8% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the Victoria and Australia figures and has barely changed since 2016.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Forest Hill (Eastern Metropolitan), the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (34%) and 3 vehicles (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home rose 28 percentage points since 2016 to 33%, while those using public transport to get to work fell to 2.6%. Driving is the most common way to commute, with 45% of people traveling as the driver.
33.0% —
Higher than 86% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 33.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.6% —
Higher than 52% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 7.9%
- 2021: 2.6%
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.
The area has 34 public transport routes and 283 stops, with 86.5% being buses. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are a little above the Victoria figure, at 1,561.3.
283
Higher than 56% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.61
Higher than 50% 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).
1,561.3
Higher than 72% 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).
34
Higher than 67% 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 Forest Hill (Eastern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED23101/forest-hill/topic/transport