Mount Pelion · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Mount Pelion

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

Zero homes without a car is a striking fact for Mount Pelion, where vehicle ownership is essential. Every single household has at least one vehicle, making the area far more car-dependent than the national average.

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📍 Mount Pelion, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Nearly half of all homes have three or more vehicles, and not a single household is without a motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure of 7.4% for homes without a car.

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 Pelion splits fairly evenly between 3 vehicles (36%) and 2 vehicles (32%), with 1 vehicle at 18%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

The car is the only way people get to work, with 84.5% driving or riding as a passenger. This explains why 0.0% of workers use public transport or work from home, figures that are far below the national averages.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 13.1%
  • 2016: 11.5%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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: 3.9%
  • 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 Pelion, Car (driver) is the majority at 89%; Car (passenger) is next at 11%.

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 is far below the Queensland figure of 720.7 per 1,000 people.

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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 Mount Pelion [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32011/mount-pelion/topic/transport