Mount Best · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Mount Best

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

Zero homes without a car ever happens in Mount Best, making it far less dependent on the state's average for vehicle ownership. This highlights a total reliance on private transport in a remote area where public options are non-existent.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single household owns a motor vehicle, which is well below the 7.6% of Victorian homes without one. Most families have two cars (55%) or one car (40%), while 15% of homes have three.

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In Mount Best, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 50%, followed by 1 vehicle (36%) and 3 vehicles (14%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

The most common how people get to work is Car (driver) at 85%, ahead of Worked at home (38%).

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In Mount Best, Car (driver) is the majority at 69%; Worked at home is next at 31%.

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, leaving it far below the Victorian average 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).

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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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting to the city is a significant journey, with a typical drive time of 131 minutes, which is much higher than most areas.

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Higher than 86% 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 Mount Best [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21774/mount-best/topic/transport