Mount Walker · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Mount Walker

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

Far more people work from home in Mount Walker than in the rest of Australia, with 36.6% of the workforce doing so. This high rate of home working reflects a community where almost every household relies on their own car to get around.

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📍 Mount Walker, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home in Mount Walker has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households are heavily equipped, with 45.9% owning three vehicles and 32.4% owning four or more.

0.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Mount Walker, the largest group is 3 vehicles at 35%, followed by 4 or more (24%) and 1 vehicle (20%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one in the area commutes by public transport, which helps explain why the 36.6% who work from home is far above the Queensland average of 14.1%. Most others rely on driving themselves to work.

36.6%

Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2016: 16.9%
  • 2021: 36.6%

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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In Mount Walker, the largest group is Car (driver) at 50%, followed by Worked at home (45%) and Walked (5%).

Public transport access

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

Public transport is effectively non-existent here, with zero stops and zero routes serving the area. This is far below the state average for stops and departures 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).

0

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The typical drive time to the city is 54 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.

54

Lower than 59% 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)).
  • Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
  • 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 Walker [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32035/mount-walker/topic/transport