7.8% ▼ -13.7%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.1%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 7.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mount Gambier · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Mount Gambier
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car travel remains the dominant way to move around Mount Gambier, with 74.5% of workers driving to their jobs. While the area has a high number of public transport stops, very few people actually use them for their daily commute. This reliance on private vehicles is clear across the city's transport patterns.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have one or two cars, though 7.8% of homes have no motor vehicle. This figure is about the same as the state and national averages, but is much higher than in most similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Mount Gambier splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, while only 0.4% of people use public transport. Working from home is also uncommon here at 3.6%, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
3.6% ▲ +47.3%
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 3.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -21.6%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.4%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Mount Gambier has a high number of bus stops and 12 routes, which is among the largest for its size. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the South Australian average.
122
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.77
Higher than 77% 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).
235.0
Higher than 73% 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).
12
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Access to transport is convenient for many, as the typical walk to the nearest stop is only 1 minute. This is much lower than in most similar 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.
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 Gambier [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40947/mount-gambier/topic/transport