3.8% ▼ -8.9%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mount Ousley · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Mount Ousley
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people work from home in Mount Ousley than in most similar areas, with 30.8% of the workforce doing so. This reliance on home-based work is a key feature of the local transport landscape, as very few residents use public transport to get to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common here, with 44.7% of homes owning two vehicles. Only 3.8% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Mount Ousley, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 1 vehicle (30%) and 3 vehicles (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very popular at 30.8%, which is well above the Australian figure of 21%. In contrast, only 0.5% of residents commute by public transport, a figure slightly below the national average.
30.8% ▲ +669.8%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 30.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▼ -86.0%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 limited to two bus routes. While this is more than about 79% of similar areas, the 47.2 weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the New South Wales figure.
2
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.24
Higher than 62% 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).
47.2
Higher than 62% 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.
The typical walk to the nearest transport stop takes 13 minutes. A drive to the city takes about 61 minutes, which is around the middle for areas of this type.
13
Higher than 50% 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.
61
Lower than 55% 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 Mount Ousley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12793/mount-ousley/topic/transport