Mountain Top · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Mountain Top

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

Nearly half of the workforce in Mountain Top works from home, which is one of the highest rates for any area of this type. This high number of home-based workers reflects a place where very few people need to commute to a city or office each day.

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📍 Mountain Top, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

The most common motor vehicles per home is 2 vehicles at 75%, ahead of 1 vehicle (25%).

Motor vehicles per home

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In Mountain Top, 2 vehicles is the majority at 52%; 1 vehicle is next at 17%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

About 48% of workers stay at home for their jobs, a figure far above the national average. Most other residents drive themselves to work, as no one here uses public transport to commute.

47.8%

Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 38.5%
  • 2021: 47.8%

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 Mountain Top, Car (driver) is the majority at 58%; Worked at home is next at 42%.

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 is far below the New South Wales average for service access.

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting around without a car is difficult, as the walk to the nearest transport stop takes 46 minutes. This is much higher than most similar areas.

46

Higher than 77% 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.

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 Mountain Top [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12818/mountain-top/topic/transport