Mountain View · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Mountain View

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

Zero homes without a car makes Mountain View one of the most vehicle-dependent areas in the region. Residents rely almost entirely on private transport to get around, as there are no public transport options available in the area.

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📍 Mountain View, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home here has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households own several cars, with 40.9% having two and another 21.2% owning three.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 6.5%
  • 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 Mountain View, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 42%, followed by 3 vehicles (22%) and 1 vehicle (20%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Getting to work is almost exclusively done by car, with 71% of people driving. This explains why only 6.5% of people work from home, a figure far below the New South Wales average of 31%.

6.5% ▲ —

Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 7.7%
  • 2021: 6.5%

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.

How people get to work

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In Mountain View, Car (driver) is the majority at 88%; Worked at home is next at 8%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport routes or stops in the area. This puts the region far below the New South Wales figure for stops and weekly departures per 1,000 people.

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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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Walking to the nearest transport stop takes a typical 63 minutes, which is much higher than most areas.

63

Higher than 87% 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 View [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12819/mountain-view/topic/transport