Mount Tomah · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Mount Tomah

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

Zero households in Mount Tomah are without a motor vehicle, making car ownership universal here. This reliance on private transport is clear, as every single resident depends on a car or works from home to get to their job.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have multiple cars, with 46.4% owning two and 25% owning four or more. The 0% rate of homes without a vehicle is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

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 Mount Tomah, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 4 or more (24%) and 3 vehicles (17%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work for 41% of residents, while 23.1% work from home. No one in the area commutes using public transport, which is well below the Australian average of 3.1%.

23.1%

Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 22.2%
  • 2021: 23.1%

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 Mount Tomah, Car (driver) is the majority at 64%; Worked at home is next at 36%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is nonexistent here, with zero stops and zero routes serving the area. This means no residents can reach others via transit within 45 minutes, a figure far below the New South Wales average.

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.

How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting around is a challenge without a car, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 35 minutes, which is higher than most areas. The drive time to the city is 81 minutes.

35

Higher 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.

81

Higher than 57% 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)).
  • Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
  • 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 Tomah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12806/mount-tomah/topic/transport