9.8% —
Higher than 85% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 10.5%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
St Albans (Western Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in St Albans (Western Metropolitan)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Working from home in St Albans has jumped from just 2% in 2016 to 16.0% in 2021. This shift comes alongside a high reliance on cars, though the area remains more connected to public transport than most similar places. More than 10% of households still do not own a motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Nearly 1 in 10 homes here have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas and a little above the national figure of 7.4%. Most households own either one vehicle (38.7%) or two (33.0%).
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In St Albans (Western Metropolitan), the largest group is 1 vehicle at 39%, followed by 2 vehicles (33%) and 3 vehicles (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Over half of workers drive to work (56.0%), while 5.3% use public transport, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas but fell nearly 6 points since 2016. Those working from home (16.0%) are far fewer than the Victorian average of 25.7%.
16.0% —
Higher than 60% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 16.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
5.3% —
Higher than 84% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 5.3%
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 more frequent here than the state average, with 1,396.9 weekly departures per 1,000 people. The area is served by 326 stops across 31 routes, with buses accounting for 93.9% of the service.
326
Higher than 67% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.32
Lower than 56% 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).
1,396.9
Higher than 66% 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).
31
Higher than 61% 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 St Albans (Western Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED27807/st-albans/topic/transport