Mount Perry · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Mount Perry

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

Zero households in Mount Perry were without a motor vehicle in 2021. This makes the town remarkably car-dependent, with every single home owning at least one vehicle. While most people drive to work, a surprising number of residents still walk or use public transport.

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📍 Mount Perry, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every home in Mount Perry has a car, a figure that is well below the national and state rates for households without vehicles. This represents a huge shift since 2011, when 43.1% of homes had no motor vehicle.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 43.1%
  • 2016: 4.3%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Mount Perry splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (43%) and 2 vehicles (43%), with 3 vehicles at 9%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Nearly one in ten people use public transport to get to work, which is well above the national figure of 3.1%. Working from home is much less common here than across Australia, though it has risen slightly since 2011.

5.8% ▲ —

Lower than 66% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 7.7%
  • 2021: 5.8%

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

9.6% ▼ -45.1%

Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 17.5%
  • 2016: 12.3%
  • 2021: 9.6%

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 Perry, Car (driver) is the majority at 51%; Walked is next at 27%.

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 Perry [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322088/mount-perry/topic/transport