3.2% ▼ -92.4%
Lower than 83% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 41.9%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 3.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mill Park (Northern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Mill Park (Northern Metropolitan)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A dramatic shift in travel habits has occurred in Mill Park, where the proportion of homes without a car plummeted from 41.9% in 2011 to just 3.2% in 2021. This high level of car ownership now defines the area, with the vast majority of residents relying on private vehicles or working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 41.9% of homes owning two vehicles and 24.4% owning three or more. Only 3.2% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Mill Park (Northern Metropolitan), the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 1 vehicle (31%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, while 19.5% now work from home, a figure that rose 15 points since 2011. Reliance on public transport has dropped sharply to just 2.6%, which is about the same as the national figure.
19.5% ▲ +383.0%
Higher than 68% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 19.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.6% ▼ -88.1%
Higher than 52% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 21.9%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 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.
Bus services dominate the area, making up 96.8% of the public transport network. While Mill Park has fewer stops per person than most areas, the number of weekly departures is higher than most, sitting slightly above the Victorian average.
286
Higher than 57% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.00
Lower than 63% 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).
1,357.2
Higher than 64% 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).
15
Lower than 77% 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 Mill Park (Northern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED25003/mill-park/topic/transport