Mount Darry · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Mount Darry

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

Over a third of workers in Mount Darry work from home, making it one of the most remote-working areas compared to similar places. This trend is stark given the lack of local transport options and the long distance to the city.

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📍 Mount Darry, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

The most common motor vehicles per home is 4 or more at 41%, ahead of 2 vehicles (35%).

Motor vehicles per home

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In Mount Darry, the largest group is 4 or more at 44%, followed by 2 vehicles (38%) and 3 vehicles (19%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is very common here at 35.5%, which is far above the national figure of 21%. Nobody uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the Australian average of 3.1%.

35.5%

Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 40.0%
  • 2021: 35.5%

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.

How people get to work

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Mount Darry splits fairly evenly between Car (driver) (50%) and Worked at home (50%).

Public transport access

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

Public transport is non-existent in Mount Darry, with zero stops and routes. This is far below the Queensland average of 2.99 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.

Getting to the city is a significant trip, with a drive time of 127 minutes, which is much higher than most areas.

127

Higher than 85% 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 Darry [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31954/mount-darry/topic/transport