7.6% ▼ -12.5%
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Victoria · State / Territory
Transport & Vehicles in Victoria
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people work from home in Victoria than in most other states, with over a quarter of the workforce doing so. While the state has a huge number of transport routes, the way people travel has shifted, with fewer residents using public transport to get to work than a decade ago.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most Victorian homes have one or two cars, though 7.6% have no motor vehicle. This is much higher than most other areas at this level, although it is about the same as the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Victoria splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here, with 25.7% of people doing so—well above the Australian figure of 21%. Meanwhile, those using public transport to get to work fell from 7.5% in 2011 to 2.9% in 2021.
25.7% ▲ +497.9%
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 25.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.9% ▼ -61.7%
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 2.9%
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.
Victoria has a very high number of public transport stops and routes compared to most areas. This network is dominated by buses, which make up 77.6% of the modes available.
28,683
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.41
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
1,267.9
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).
1,058
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 Victoria [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ste/2/victoria/topic/transport