Mortons Creek · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Mortons Creek

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

Nearly half of all homes in Mortons Creek have two motor vehicles, reflecting a heavy reliance on cars to get around. The area has no public transport and very few people work from home compared to the national figure. This makes the car the primary way residents access work and services.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home in Mortons Creek has at least one motor vehicle. This is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2% for homes without a car, with 47.5% of households owning two vehicles.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Mortons Creek, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 48%, followed by 3 vehicles (25%) and 1 vehicle (15%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work for 69.4% of residents. This is consistent with the fact that 0% of the workforce uses public transport, and only 13.6% work from home, which is far below the state figure of 31%.

13.6%

Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 3.0%
  • 2021: 13.6%

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 Mortons Creek, Car (driver) is the majority at 82%; Worked at home is next at 16%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in Mortons Creek. This puts the area far below the New South Wales average of 5.27 stops per 1,000 people.

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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).

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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.

Access to transit is very limited, with a typical 89-minute walk to the nearest stop. This is among the highest walking times for similar areas.

89

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 Mortons Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12742/mortons-creek/topic/transport