0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.5%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mount Thorley · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Mount Thorley
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every single home in Mount Thorley owns a car, making it one of the most vehicle-reliant areas in the region. With no public transport options available, residents rely entirely on private cars or working from home to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high, with 24% of households owning four or more vehicles. No homes in the area are without a motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Mount Thorley, the largest group is 4 or more at 35%, followed by 1 vehicle (24%) and 3 vehicles (24%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Nearly half of workers drive themselves to work, while 19.5% work from home. This working-from-home rate is a little below the national figure of 21% and far below the state figure of 31%.
19.5% ▲ +139.0%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 19.5%
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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This puts the local transit access far below the New South Wales average of 5.27 stops per 1,000 people.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
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).
0
Lower than 99% 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 area is quite remote, with a typical drive time to the city of 126 minutes, which is much higher than most areas.
126
Higher than 84% 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 Thorley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12805/mount-thorley/topic/transport