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.
Mount Perry · Urban Centre
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.
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.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mount Perry splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (43%) and 2 vehicles (43%), with 3 vehicles at 9%.
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.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
9.6% ▼ -45.1%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
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.
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