Narracan (Eastern Victoria) · State Electorate

Transport & Vehicles in Narracan (Eastern Victoria)

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Almost every household in Narracan relies on a car to get around. Only 4.5% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen since 2011. This heavy dependence on private transport is mirrored in the way people travel for work and the limited frequency of public transport services.

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📍 Narracan (Eastern Victoria), State Electorate

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Cars are essential here, with 38.2% of homes owning two vehicles and 10.7% having four or more. The proportion of homes without a car is well below the Victorian figure of 7.6%.

4.5% ▼ -44.0%

Lower than 65% of state electorate areas.

  • 2011: 8.1%
  • 2016: 5.1%
  • 2021: 4.5%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Narracan (Eastern Victoria), the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 1 vehicle (31%) and 3 vehicles (15%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 62.4% of residents. While 15.4% now work from home—a rise of 12 percentage points since 2011—this is still far below the Victorian average of 25.7%.

15.4% ▲ +412.3%

Higher than 59% of state electorate areas.

  • 2011: 3.0%
  • 2016: 6.8%
  • 2021: 15.4%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.8% ▼ -28.1%

Lower than 82% of state electorate areas.

  • 2011: 1.1%
  • 2016: 1.8%
  • 2021: 0.8%

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.

How people get to work

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In Narracan (Eastern Victoria), Car (driver) is the majority at 73%; Worked at home is next at 18%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport is infrequent, with weekly departures per 1,000 people far below the Victorian figure. While there are 265 stops across 34 routes, only 0.8% of workers use public transport to commute.

3.43

Lower than 74% 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).

431.5

Lower than 73% 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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Narracan (Eastern Victoria) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED25802/narracan/topic/transport