5.3% ▼ -24.9%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 5.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mount Barker · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Mount Barker
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
About 65% of workers in Mount Barker drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. The area is well connected, with a very short drive time to the city and easy access to public transport stops. While most homes own multiple cars, a small number of households here live without a vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, and 40.2% have two. Only 5.3% of households have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Mount Barker splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here than across Australia, with only 10.4% doing so. Public transport use for commuting is 2.9%, which is much higher than in most similar areas.
10.4% ▲ +191.7%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 10.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.9% ▼ -19.1%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 2.9%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Mount Barker has a high number of public transport routes and stops, with 35 routes and 64 stops. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the South Australian figure.
64
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.49
Higher than 71% 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).
753.1
Higher than 83% 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).
35
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
22,113
Higher than 75% 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).
22,113
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting around is convenient, as the typical walk to the nearest stop is just one minute. The drive time to the city is 25 minutes, which is much lower than most areas.
1
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
25
Lower than 79% 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 Barker [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40932/mount-barker/topic/transport