0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mount Bute · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Mount Bute
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost 42% of homes in Mount Bute have just one motor vehicle, though many others have four or more. This is a car-dependent area where nearly half of the workforce avoids a commute by working from home.
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 Victorian rate of 7.6% for homes without a car. About 38% of households own four or more vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Mount Bute splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (33%) and 4 or more (30%), with 2 vehicles at 22%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here at 41.5%, a figure far above the national average of 21%. No one uses public transport to get to work; instead, the rest primarily drive themselves.
41.5% —
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 58.8%
- 2021: 41.5%
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.
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 weekly departures are far below the Victorian figure of 1,268 per 1,000 people.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
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.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to the city is a long trip, with a drive time of 115 minutes, which is much higher than most similar areas.
115
Higher than 78% 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 Bute [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21780/mount-bute/topic/transport