0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mount Hicks · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Mount Hicks
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over 65% of working residents drive themselves to work in Mount Hicks, where car ownership is nearly universal. This is a remote area where the typical trip to the city takes 214 minutes, making personal vehicles essential for daily life.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Every single home in Mount Hicks has at least one motor vehicle, which is well below the state and national figures for homes without a car. Many households have multiple vehicles, with 34.1% owning two and 24.8% owning three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Mount Hicks, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 36%, followed by 3 vehicles (26%) and 1 vehicle (22%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one uses public transport to get to work, and only 8.2% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure. Most of the workforce relies on cars, though 6.3% of people walk to their jobs.
8.2% ▼ -5.4%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 8.2%
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: 1.9%
- 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 no public transport routes or stops in Mount Hicks. This puts the area far below the state average for service access and weekly departures.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
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).
0
Lower than 99% 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.
Getting around the region is a significant undertaking, as the drive time to the city is among the highest for similar areas at 214 minutes.
214
Higher than 99% 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 Hicks [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60428/mount-hicks/topic/transport