3.1% ▼ -43.8%
Lower than 84% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 5.5%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 3.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Hastings (Eastern Victoria) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Hastings (Eastern Victoria)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every home in Hastings has a car, making it much more vehicle-dependent than most similar areas. Only 3.1% of households are without a motor vehicle, and the vast majority of the working population relies on driving to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 39.7% of homes owning two vehicles and 11.8% owning four or more. The proportion of homes without a car is well below the state figure of 7.6% and has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Hastings (Eastern Victoria), the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (29%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, with 60.7% of people as the driver. Working from home rose to 16.4% since 2011, while public transport use is much lower than most areas at just 0.6%.
16.4% ▲ +72.2%
Higher than 61% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 9.5%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 16.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -1.2%
Lower than 87% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 0.6%
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.
Public transport is limited in Hastings, with weekly departures per 1,000 people being far below the Victorian figure of 1,267.9. There are 13 routes and 263 stops, with buses making up 97% of the services.
263
Higher than 51% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.65
Lower than 71% 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).
460.1
Lower than 71% 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).
13
Lower than 81% 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 Hastings (Eastern Victoria) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED23702/hastings/topic/transport