2.1% —
Lower than 95% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 1.8%
- 2021: 2.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Rowville (South-Eastern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Rowville (South-Eastern Metropolitan)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 2.1% of Rowville homes lack a motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average. This reliance on cars is reflected in how people travel, with very few residents using public transport to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have multiple cars, with 44.8% owning two and 17.4% owning three. This explains why the number of households without a vehicle is among the lowest for similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Rowville (South-Eastern Metropolitan), the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 1 vehicle (24%) and 3 vehicles (17%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has surged to 25% since 2016, while public transport use for commuting has fallen to just 1.1%. The majority of people now drive themselves to work, accounting for 56.1% of trips.
25.0% —
Higher than 77% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 25.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.1% —
Lower than 74% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 1.1%
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.
Rowville has 266 public transport stops, all of which are buses. While it has more routes than 71% of similar areas, weekly departures per 1,000 people are a little below the Victorian figure.
266
Higher than 51% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.80
Higher than 54% 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).
1,059.8
Higher than 52% 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).
35
Higher than 69% 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 Rowville (South-Eastern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED27305/rowville/topic/transport