1.2% ▼ -50.2%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 1.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mossy Point · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Mossy Point
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every household in Mossy Point relies on a car to get around, with only 1.2% of homes having no motor vehicle. This dependency is far more pronounced than in the rest of New South Wales, where the figure is 9.2%. Most residents rely on private transport for daily life and work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are very common here, with 41.1% of homes owning two vehicles and another 19.9% owning three. This explains why the number of homes without a car is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Mossy Point, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (30%) and 3 vehicles (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Nobody in the area commutes to work using public transport, and only 15.7% work from home, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 31.0%. The vast majority of workers drive, with 64.2% as the driver.
15.7% ▲ +56.5%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 15.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 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.
Mossy Point has 11 bus stops and two routes, meaning it has far more stops per person than the state average. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the New South Wales figure.
11
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
18.09
Higher than 91% 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).
305.9
Higher than 75% 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).
2
Higher than 75% 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.
Getting to a stop is relatively easy, with a typical walk of 4 minutes, which is lower than in most similar areas.
4
Lower than 71% 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 Mossy Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12752/mossy-point/topic/transport