Mount Perry · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Mount Perry

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

More homes in Mount Perry lack a motor vehicle than in most similar areas, though the vast majority still rely on cars. Only 2.8% of households are without a vehicle, which is well below the Queensland figure of 5.8%.

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📍 Mount Perry, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have at least one car, with 37% owning two vehicles and 10.5% owning four or more. This high level of car ownership is consistent with the area's very low rate of vehicle-less households.

2.8% ▲ +22.2%

Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.3%
  • 2016: 5.8%
  • 2021: 2.8%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Mount Perry splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (34%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the main way to get to work for 44.1% of residents, while 10.3% walk. Those working from home make up 13.8% of the workforce, which is well below the national figure of 21.0%.

13.8% ▲ +30.3%

Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 10.6%
  • 2016: 11.9%
  • 2021: 13.8%

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

3.4% ▼ -65.5%

Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 10.0%
  • 2016: 9.8%
  • 2021: 3.4%

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 Perry, Car (driver) is the majority at 59%; Worked at home is next at 18%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is almost non-existent here, with zero stops and routes available. This is far below the Queensland average of 2.99 stops 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 Perry [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32012/mount-perry/topic/transport