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.
Mount Eccles · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Mount Eccles
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than half of the working residents in Mount Eccles drive to work, reflecting a heavy reliance on cars in this rural area. The typical household is well-equipped for travel, with every single home owning at least one motor vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
No home in the area is without a vehicle, a figure well below the Victorian and national rates. About 32% of households have three vehicles, and 9% own four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Mount Eccles splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (35%) and 3 vehicles (35%), with 2 vehicles at 20%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here at 37.5%, which is far above the national figure. No one in the area uses public transport to get to work.
37.5% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 25.5%
- 2021: 37.5%
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, meaning access is far below the Victorian average.
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.
The drive time to the city is 102 minutes, which is higher than most similar areas.
102
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 Mount Eccles [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21791/mount-eccles/topic/transport