4.1% ▼ -62.7%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.9%
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mount Melville · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Mount Melville
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Private cars are essential for daily life in Mount Melville, where no one uses public transport to get to work. While the area has a fair number of bus stops, very few people actually rely on them for their daily commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have one or two cars, with 45.3% owning one and 38.1% owning two. Only 4.1% of households have no motor vehicle, which is a similar rate to the Western Australian figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Mount Melville, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 45%, followed by 2 vehicles (38%) and 3 vehicles (9%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Not a single person here commutes using public transport, a figure well below the national average. This heavy reliance on cars is mirrored by the fact that only 5.5% of people work from home, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%.
5.5% ▲ +110.0%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 5.5%
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: 0.7%
- 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.
There are 6 bus stops in the area, giving Mount Melville more stops per person than most similar areas. However, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Western Australian average.
6
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.96
Higher than 81% 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).
297.9
Higher than 75% 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).
1
Higher than 71% 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.
It takes about 12 minutes to walk to the nearest public transport stop, which is around the middle for areas of this type.
12
Lower than 51% 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 Melville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51025/mount-melville/topic/transport