Mount Arthur · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Mount Arthur

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

A total lack of public transport defines Mount Arthur, where every single household owns at least one motor vehicle. This reliance on private cars is stark, as the area has no bus or train services and far fewer transit options than the New South Wales average.

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📍 Mount Arthur, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Private transport is essential here, with 0% of homes lacking a motor vehicle, a figure well below the state and national averages. Over a quarter of households own four or more vehicles, and 21.4% have three.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.6%
  • 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 Mount Arthur, the largest group is 4 or more at 31%, followed by 2 vehicles (25%) and 3 vehicles (25%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Since there is no public transport, 0% of the workforce uses it to commute. Instead, 59.3% of people drive themselves to work, while 25.4% work from home, which is well above the national figure.

25.4% ▲ +20.5%

Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 21.1%
  • 2016: 10.3%
  • 2021: 25.4%

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: 1.2%
  • 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 Mount Arthur, Car (driver) is the majority at 64%; Worked at home is next at 27%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This puts Mount Arthur far below the New South Wales average for both the number of stops and weekly departures 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).

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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Mount Arthur [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12758/mount-arthur/topic/transport