7.0% ▼ -16.1%
Higher than 70% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 8.4%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mount Gambier · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Mount Gambier
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people use public transport or work from home in Mount Gambier than in most similar areas. This highlights a strong reliance on cars for daily travel, with nearly 75% of workers driving themselves to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 36.2% owning two and 12.8% owning three. Only 7% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen slightly since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Mount Gambier splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Commuting by public transport is rare at just 0.3%, which is well below the state figure of 4.1%. Working from home is also uncommon at 4.4%, a rate far below the national figure of 21%.
4.4% ▲ +49.0%
Lower than 83% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 4.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -31.3%
Lower than 73% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 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.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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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/sua/4002/mount-gambier/topic/transport