6.6% —
Higher than 63% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 7.6%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Thomastown (Northern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Thomastown (Northern Metropolitan)
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A heavy reliance on cars shapes daily travel in Thomastown, where nearly 60% of workers drive themselves to their jobs. While most homes own at least one vehicle, the area provides strong public transport access with more frequent service departures than the state average.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households here own one or two cars, with 40% having two vehicles. About 6.6% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that is higher than most areas but has fallen slightly since 2016.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Thomastown (Northern Metropolitan) splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 59.5% of residents. While 16.6% now work from home—a jump of 14 points since 2016—this is still well below the national figure of 21%.
16.6% —
Higher than 62% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 16.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
3.6% —
Higher than 67% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 3.6%
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 widely available with 362 stops, and the 1,338 weekly departures per 1,000 people is higher than most areas. This service is almost entirely provided by buses, which account for 97.2% of the local transit network.
362
Higher than 74% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.39
Lower than 55% 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).
1,338.1
Higher than 64% 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).
19
Lower than 70% 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 Thomastown (Northern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED28203/thomastown/topic/transport