5.1% —
Lower than 57% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lowan (Western Victoria) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Lowan (Western Victoria)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over 61% of working residents in Lowan drive themselves to work, highlighting a strong reliance on cars for daily travel. While the area has a fair number of transport stops, very few people actually use public transit to get to their jobs. Most households here own at least one vehicle to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost 95% of homes have a motor vehicle, which is a little below the figures for Victoria and Australia. About 36% of households own two vehicles, and roughly 27% have three or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Lowan (Western Victoria) splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 1 vehicle (32%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people use public transport to commute, at just 0.2%, which is among the lowest for its level. While 14.5% of people work from home—a rise of 3.9 percentage points since 2016—this is still well below the national figure.
14.5% —
Higher than 57% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 10.6%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% —
Lower than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.2%
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.
Lowan has 297 public transport stops, meaning it has more stops per 1,000 people than the Victorian average. However, the number of weekly departures is far below the state figure, with buses making up almost all of the available services.
297
Higher than 60% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.08
Higher than 60% 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).
204.1
Lower than 84% 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).
29
Higher than 57% 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 Lowan (Western Victoria) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED24408/lowan/topic/transport