Mount White · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Mount White

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

A total reliance on private cars defines Mount White, where not a single home is without a motor vehicle. This car-dependent nature is clear in the way people travel, with almost everyone driving or working from home.

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📍 Mount White, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home in Mount White has at least one motor vehicle, a figure well below the New South Wales and national rates. Many households have multiple cars, with 19.4% owning four or more.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 3.8%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Mount White splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 4 or more at 20%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one in Mount White uses public transport to get to work. While 25.3% of people work from home—which is well above the national figure—the most common way to commute is by driving, at 42.2%.

25.3%

Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 10.3%
  • 2021: 25.3%

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 White, Car (driver) is the majority at 58%; Worked at home is next at 35%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is virtually non-existent here, with zero stops or routes serving the area. This puts the region far below New South Wales levels for transit access and weekly departures.

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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).

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.

The drive time to the city is 45 minutes, which is lower than in most similar areas.

45

Lower than 65% 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 White [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12814/mount-white/topic/transport