6.1% ▼ -29.5%
Higher than 64% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mildura · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Mildura
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A heavy reliance on cars defines daily travel in Mildura, where 68.1% of workers drive themselves to their jobs. While the region has a high number of transport stops, very few people use public transit or work from home compared to other parts of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own at least one car, with 37.4% having two vehicles. Only 6.1% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that is a little below the national average and has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Mildura splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (34%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here than in the rest of Australia, at just 9.1%. This is consistent with the low use of public transport for commuting, which is used by only 0.5% of workers.
9.1% ▲ +70.8%
Lower than 70% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 9.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▼ -34.7%
Lower than 64% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.5%
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.
Mildura has 426 public transport stops and 29 routes, giving it more stops per person than the Victorian average. However, the number of weekly departures is far below the state figure, and the network relies entirely on buses.
426
Higher than 81% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
7.48
Higher than 90% of council (lga) areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
412.1
Higher than 70% of council (lga) 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).
29
Higher than 77% of council (lga) 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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Mildura [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA24780/mildura/topic/transport