7.6% ▲ +18.4%
Higher than 78% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 13.4%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mount Gambier · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Mount Gambier
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more people in Mount Gambier rely on private cars than in most similar areas. While the majority of homes have one or two vehicles, very few residents use public transport or work from home. This reliance on driving is a defining feature of how people move around the city.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 7.6% of homes in Mount Gambier have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas and has risen since 2011. Most households own either one vehicle (38.1%) or two (35.9%).
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Mount Gambier splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 74.6% of people as the driver. Only 0.4% use public transport, and those working from home fell to 3.7%, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
3.7% ▼ -35.4%
Lower than 83% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 3.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -36.8%
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 0.4%
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/ucl/UCL412003/mount-gambier/topic/transport