24.8% ▲ +4.1%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.8%
- 2016: 23.3%
- 2021: 24.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mitchell · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Mitchell
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over half of all homes in Mitchell have just one motor vehicle. It is an area where nearly 25% of households have no car at all, which is far above the national figure. Despite this, the local workforce relies heavily on cars to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost one in four homes here have no motor vehicle, a rate far above both the New South Wales and Australian figures. For the rest, a single car is the most common setup, found in 52.9% of households.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Mitchell, 1 vehicle is the majority at 53%; No vehicle is next at 25%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people here drive to work, with 65.8% as the driver and 6.3% as a passenger. Very few people work from home at 4.6%, a figure far below the national average.
4.6% ▲ +33.9%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 1.2%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.1%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is well represented with 13 stops across 9 routes, all of which are buses. There are 11.03 stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the New South Wales average.
13
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
11.03
Higher than 88% 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).
1,423.2
Higher than 89% 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).
9
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
It takes about 7 minutes to walk to the nearest transport stop. However, the area is quite remote from the city, with a drive time of 155 minutes.
7
Lower than 61% 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.
155
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.
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 Mitchell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12661/mitchell/topic/transport