Myrtle Mountain · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Myrtle Mountain

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

A massive gap in public transport access defines Myrtle Mountain, where not a single home is without a motor vehicle. This reliance on cars is stark, as the area has no public transport stops or routes, leaving residents almost entirely dependent on private travel for their daily needs.

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📍 Myrtle Mountain, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home in Myrtle Mountain has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales rate of 9.2% for homes without one. Most households have two or three vehicles, with 41.4% owning two and 27.6% owning three.

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 Myrtle Mountain, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 3 vehicles (30%) and 1 vehicle (26%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Over half of workers drive themselves to work, and 10% walk. Only 7.5% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.

7.5%

Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 11.5%
  • 2021: 7.5%

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 Myrtle Mountain, Car (driver) is the majority at 66%; Car (passenger) is next at 13%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes serving the area. Consequently, weekly departures per 1,000 people are at 0.0, a figure far below the New South Wales average of 1,313.6.

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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).

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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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Myrtle Mountain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12891/myrtle-mountain/topic/transport