Mornington · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Mornington

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

Almost one in ten homes in Mornington have no motor vehicle, a figure well above the Queensland average. This highlights a reliance on other ways to get around in a small area where public transport options are virtually non-existent.

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📍 Mornington, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

About 10.1% of households do not own a car, which is much higher than most similar areas. For those who do, most have either one or two vehicles, with 38% owning one and 35% owning two.

10.1% ▼ -6.6%

Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 10.8%
  • 2016: 8.7%
  • 2021: 10.1%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Mornington splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work for 64% of residents, while 8.4% walk. Very few people work from home at 2.2%, which is far below the national figure of 21%.

2.2% ▲ +118.2%

Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 1.0%
  • 2016: 0.8%
  • 2021: 2.2%

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

0.7% ▲ +129.7%

Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.3%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.7%

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 Mornington, Car (driver) is the majority at 76%; Walked is next at 10%.

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 the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is 0.0, which is far below the Queensland average.

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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Mornington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31923/mornington/topic/transport