Mount Hardey · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Mount Hardey

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

Over half of workers in Mount Hardey drive themselves to work, making the car the primary way to get around. While most homes own multiple vehicles, there is almost no access to public transport services. This creates a strong reliance on private cars for daily travel.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every single home in Mount Hardey has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the state and national figures. Most households are well-equipped, with 39% owning two vehicles and nearly 29% owning three.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 1.8%
  • 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 Hardey, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 3 vehicles (29%) and 1 vehicle (19%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

While 55.7% of people drive to work, those working from home make up 9.1% of the workforce, which is far below the national figure. About 4.5% of workers use public transport, a rate a little above the Australian average.

9.1% ▼ -58.1%

Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 21.7%
  • 2016: 16.7%
  • 2021: 9.1%

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

4.5% ▲ +67.4%

Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 2.7%
  • 2016: 3.6%
  • 2021: 4.5%

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 Hardey, Car (driver) is the majority at 68%; Worked at home is next at 11%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is almost non-existent here, with no stops or routes available. This leaves the area far below the state average for transport access, with zero weekly 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).

0.0

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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

The typical drive time from Mount Hardey to the city is 77 minutes, which is around the middle for similar areas.

77

Higher than 55% 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)).
  • 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 Hardey [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51013/mount-hardey/topic/transport