Mitchellstown · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Mitchellstown

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

More people in Mitchellstown rely on cars than in most similar areas. Almost every home has a motor vehicle, and a third of households own four or more. This heavy reliance on driving is a necessity in a place with no public transport options.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

No homes in Mitchellstown are without a motor vehicle, which is well below the 7.6% seen across Victoria. A third of households own four or more vehicles, while 18.5% have only one.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Mitchellstown, the largest group is 4 or more at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (24%) and 2 vehicles (19%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one here commutes by public transport, a figure well below the national average of 3.1%. While 39% of workers drive, only 9.8% work from home, which is far below the 21% seen across Australia.

9.8%

Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 9.4%
  • 2021: 9.8%

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 Mitchellstown, Car (driver) is the majority at 59%; Walked is next at 26%.

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 means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure far below the Victorian average of 1,268.

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 to the city is a significant trip, with a typical drive time of 101 minutes. This is higher than in most similar areas.

101

Higher than 70% 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)).
  • 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 Mitchellstown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21708/mitchellstown/topic/transport