Mount Burnett · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Mount Burnett

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

Every single home in Mount Burnett now has a motor vehicle, marking a complete reliance on cars for this rural area. While public transport is non-existent, a significant 23.3% of the workforce now operates from home.

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📍 Mount Burnett, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high, with 61.3% of households owning three or more vehicles. No homes in the area are without a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.

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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Mount Burnett splits fairly evenly between 3 vehicles (30%) and 4 or more (26%), with 1 vehicle at 22%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Getting to work is dominated by cars, with 64% of people driving and no one using public transport. This is consistent with the local lack of transit options.

23.3% —

Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 16.0%
  • 2021: 23.3%

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 Mount Burnett, Car (driver) is the majority at 71%; Worked at home 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 no residents can reach other people via transit within 45 minutes, a figure far below the Victorian average.

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).

0

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Living here involves a 29-minute walk to the nearest transport stop, which is higher than most areas. The drive time to the city is 50 minutes.

29

Higher than 66% 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.

50

Lower than 62% 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)).
  • Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
  • 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 Burnett [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21779/mount-burnett/topic/transport