4.4% —
Lower than 67% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 4.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Melton (Western Victoria) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Melton (Western Victoria)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Six out of ten workers in Melton drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. This high reliance on driving is mirrored in the home garage, where 40.3% of households own two vehicles. While more people are working from home than in previous years, the area still depends heavily on private transport.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Very few households are without a car, at just 4.4%, which is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%. This trend has remained steady since 2016, with 73.7% of homes owning at least two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Melton (Western Victoria), the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home rose sharply to 16.3% since 2016, though this remains well below the national figure of 21%. Meanwhile, public transport use for commuting fell to 2.0%, which is a little below the Australian average.
16.3% —
Higher than 61% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 16.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.0% —
Lower than 57% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 2.0%
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.
Public transport options are limited, with weekly departures per 1,000 people being far below the Victorian figure. Despite having 348 stops, the service is dominated by buses, which make up 97.9% of all routes.
348
Higher than 72% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.56
Lower than 72% 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).
766.8
Lower than 60% 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).
22
Lower than 62% 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 Melton (Western Victoria) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED24808/melton/topic/transport