6.4% ▼ -9.7%
Higher than 60% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 6.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mulgrave (South-Eastern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Mulgrave (South-Eastern Metropolitan)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over half of working residents in Mulgrave drive themselves to work. While the area has a high number of transport routes, there has been a massive shift toward flexible work, with the number of people working from home jumping 21 percentage points since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have at least one car, with 41.1% owning two vehicles. Only 6.4% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that has barely changed since 2011 and is a little below the Victorian and national figures.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Mulgrave (South-Eastern Metropolitan), the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (33%) and 3 vehicles (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is much more common here than in most similar areas, accounting for 24.2% of commutes. This is well above the Australian figure, while the share of people using public transport has fallen 4.4 percentage points since 2011 to just 2.7%.
24.2% ▲ +563.1%
Higher than 76% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 24.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.7% ▼ -62.5%
Higher than 53% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 2.7%
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.
Mulgrave has 47 public transport routes, which is more than about 85% of similar areas. The network is dominated by buses, and the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is higher than most areas.
287
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.
4.51
Lower than 52% 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).
1,300.4
Higher than 62% 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).
47
Higher than 84% 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 Mulgrave (South-Eastern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED25605/mulgrave/topic/transport