5.8% —
Higher than 54% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 5.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Sandringham (Southern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Sandringham (Southern Metropolitan)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Remote work has become a dominant part of daily life in Sandringham, where 40.3% of people now work from home. This shift is a major change from just a few years ago and marks the area as one of the highest for home-based work in its class.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 5.8% of homes here have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households own one or two vehicles, with 40.4% having one and 39.8% having two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Sandringham (Southern Metropolitan) splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (40%) and 2 vehicles (40%), with 3 vehicles at 9%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home rose by 33 points since 2016, far exceeding the Victorian average of 25.7%. Meanwhile, those using public transport to get to work fell to 2.6%, which is about the same as the state and national figures.
40.3% —
Higher than 92% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 40.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.6% —
Higher than 52% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 10.9%
- 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.
Public transport is readily available, with 5.27 stops per 1,000 people, a little above the Victorian average. Weekly departures are also well above the state figure, with 1,610.2 departures per 1,000 people across 28 different routes.
337
Higher than 70% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.27
Higher than 64% 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).
1,610.2
Higher 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).
28
Higher than 54% 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 Sandringham (Southern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED27406/sandringham/topic/transport