Doctor George Mountain · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Doctor George Mountain

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Total reliance on cars defines daily life in Doctor George Mountain, where every single home owns at least one motor vehicle. This small area has no public transport options, meaning residents must drive to get to work or access services.

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📍 Doctor George Mountain, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every household in the area owns a car, which is well below the state and national figures for homes without a vehicle. Most homes have two cars, while about a third have just one.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Doctor George Mountain, 2 vehicles is the majority at 56%; 1 vehicle is next at 30%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Three quarters of workers drive themselves to work, while 17.9% work from home. This proportion of home-workers is well below the Australian figure and far below the New South Wales average.

17.9%

Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 13.6%
  • 2021: 17.9%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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.

How people get to work

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In Doctor George Mountain, Car (driver) is the majority at 81%; Worked at home is next at 19%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

There are no public transport stops or routes serving the area. This leaves the local service level far below the New South Wales average.

0.00

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).

0.0

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality 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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting around without a car is difficult here, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 85 minutes, which is among the highest times for areas of this level.

85

Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.

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)).
  • Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Doctor George Mountain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11265/doctor-george-mountain/topic/transport