Mountain Bay · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Mountain Bay

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

Every single home in Mountain Bay has at least one motor vehicle, a stark contrast to the national figure where 7.4% of households have none. This total reliance on cars defines the area's transport landscape, with most residents needing a vehicle for their daily needs.

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📍 Mountain Bay, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Car ownership is very high here, with 89.6% of homes owning two or more vehicles. This explains why the area is well below the Victorian average for households without a car.

Motor vehicles per home

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Mountain Bay splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (30%) and 3 vehicles (30%), with 4 or more at 27%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most people drive to work, though a quarter of the workforce walks. Only 12.5% of residents work from home, which is far below the Victorian figure of 25.7%.

How people get to work

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In Mountain Bay, Car (driver) is the majority at 63%; Walked is next at 25%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent in Mountain Bay, with zero stops or routes. This puts the area far below the Victorian average for transport access.

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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).

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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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Mountain Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21817/mountain-bay/topic/transport