2.0% ▼ -14.2%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 2.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mount Egerton · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Mount Egerton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every home in Mount Egerton relies on a car to get around, with only 2% of households living without a motor vehicle. This high level of car ownership is paired with a high number of people working from home, making the area less dependent on daily travel than most of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 37.7% of homes owning two vehicles and 14.2% having four or more. Only 2% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Mount Egerton, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 1 vehicle (23%) and 3 vehicles (23%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 55.3% of residents, while 24.7% work from home, a figure well above the Australian average. No one in the area commutes by public transport.
24.7% ▲ +241.2%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.2%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 24.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 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 8.5 public transport stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the Victorian figure. However, the number of weekly departures is far below the state average, and all available services are buses.
6
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
8.50
Higher than 86% 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).
36.8
Higher than 61% 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).
2
Higher than 75% 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 typical walk to the nearest transport stop takes 32 minutes, which is longer than in most similar areas. It takes about 68 minutes to drive from here to the city.
32
Higher than 68% 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.
68
Lower than 51% 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 Egerton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21792/mount-egerton/topic/transport