2.5% —
Lower than 91% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Gembrook (Eastern Victoria) · State Electorate
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 2.5% of households in Gembrook have no motor vehicle, a figure well below the Victorian average. This high reliance on cars is common for the area, where very few people use public transport to get to work.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here own multiple cars, with 43.5% having two vehicles and 10.3% owning four or more. The proportion of homes without a car has barely changed since 2016.
2.5% —
Lower than 91% of state electorate areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
In Gembrook (Eastern Victoria), the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 1 vehicle (28%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
How people travel to work.
Working from home has jumped to 21.7%, which is about the same as the national figure and a 17 point rise since 2016. Meanwhile, only 1.4% of workers use public transport, a figure that has fallen over the last five years.
21.7% —
Higher than 72% of state electorate areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.4% —
Lower than 68% of state electorate areas.
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.
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
While there are 331 public transport stops in the area, most are buses. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the state figure, and the number of stops per 1,000 people is a little below the Victorian average.
331
Higher than 69% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.93
Lower than 65% 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).
681.9
Lower than 63% 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).
30
Higher than 59% of state electorate areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Gembrook (Eastern Victoria) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED23402/gembrook/topic/transport