Mount Moriac · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Mount Moriac

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

Over 57% of working residents in Mount Moriac drive themselves to work, highlighting a heavy reliance on private cars. This is a place where vehicle ownership is essential for daily life, as there are no public transport options available. Most homes own multiple vehicles to get around.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is universal here, with 0.0% of homes lacking a motor vehicle, which is well below the Victorian figure. Nearly 30% of households own two cars, and another 28% have four or more.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 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 Moriac splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (30%) and 4 or more (29%), with 3 vehicles at 23%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one uses public transport to get to work, while 22.2% of people work from home, a figure slightly above the national average. The vast majority of commuters rely on cars.

22.2% ▲ +53.4%

Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 14.5%
  • 2016: 16.3%
  • 2021: 22.2%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 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 Moriac, Car (driver) is the majority at 68%; Worked at home is next at 26%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport is completely absent, with zero stops and routes available. This is far below the Victorian average of 4.41 stops per 1,000 people.

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The typical drive time to the city is 61 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.

61

Lower than 55% 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 Moriac [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21805/mount-moriac/topic/transport