13.6% ▲ +129.1%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mount Burges · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Mount Burges
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A small number of residents in Mount Burges now lack their own transport, with 13.6% of homes having no motor vehicle. This is well above the figures for both Western Australia and the rest of the country. While the area has several transport stops, very few people actually use public services to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 13.6% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is among the highest rates for similar areas and well above the 5% seen across Western Australia. For those who do own cars, the most common setups are one or two vehicles per household.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Mount Burges splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (40%) and 2 vehicles (40%), with No vehicle at 20%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here works from home or uses public transport to get to work, which is far below the national figures. Instead, most people drive or ride in a car, while 18.5% walk to their jobs.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.3%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 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: 19.1%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Mount Burges has 34.48 public transport stops per 1,000 people, a figure far above the Western Australian average. However, there are very few actual departures from these stops compared to the state average, with trains making up 81.8% of the available services.
4
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
34.48
Higher 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).
189.7
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).
2
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
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)).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Mount Burges [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51006/mount-burges/topic/transport