6.3% ▼ -48.7%
Higher than 59% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 12.2%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 6.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mount Gambier · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Mount Gambier
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than 73% of workers in Mount Gambier drive themselves to work, making the car the primary way to get around. This heavy reliance on private cars is matched by a very low use of public transport and a small number of people working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have at least one car, and 36.4% have two. While 6.3% of households have no motor vehicle, this figure has fallen by 6.0 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Mount Gambier splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 1 vehicle (34%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Only 0.3% of people use public transport to get to work, which is well below the South Australian figure of 4.1%. Working from home is also uncommon at 5.5%, far below the 21.0% national average.
5.5% ▲ +238.6%
Lower than 88% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 5.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -92.2%
Lower than 97% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.3%
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.
Public transport options are limited, with only 12 bus routes and 123 stops serving the area. This is reflected in the weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the South Australian figure.
123
Lower than 81% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.46
Lower than 74% of state electorate areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
169.5
Lower than 85% of state electorate 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
Lower than 82% of state electorate 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 Gambier [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED40033/mount-gambier/topic/transport