3.7% —
Lower than 77% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 3.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Nepean (Eastern Victoria) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Nepean (Eastern Victoria)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 3.7% of homes in Nepean (Eastern Victoria) have no motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average. This heavy reliance on cars is a key feature of the area's transport landscape, where most households own at least one vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 41.6% of homes having two vehicles and 18.7% owning three or more. The proportion of homes without a car has fallen slightly since 2016 to 3.7%, which is much lower than most other areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Nepean (Eastern Victoria), the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 1 vehicle (36%) and 3 vehicles (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has surged to 22.8% since 2016, while only 0.5% of people use public transport to get to work. Most residents drive themselves to their jobs, with 53.5% commuting as the driver.
22.8% —
Higher than 74% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 7.2%
- 2021: 22.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% —
Lower than 91% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 0.5%
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.
There are 5.3 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is a little above the state figure. However, these 355 stops are all for buses, and the number of weekly departures is well below the Victorian average.
355
Higher than 73% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.30
Higher than 65% 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).
848.1
Lower than 57% 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).
6
Lower than 91% 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 Nepean (Eastern Victoria) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED26102/nepean/topic/transport