4.3% ▼ -4.4%
Higher than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.5%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mount Barker · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Mount Barker
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Very few people rely on public transport in Mount Barker (WA) compared to other similar areas. Most residents depend on their own cars to get around, with a tiny fraction of the workforce using buses or trains. This heavy reliance on private vehicles is a defining feature of the local transport landscape.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every home in the area owns a car, with 39.6% having one and 35.3% having two. Only 4.3% of households have no motor vehicle, which is about the same as the Western Australian figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Mount Barker splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (40%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to travel, with 69.1% of workers being the main driver. Working from home is far less common here than across Australia, at just 4.6%, while public transport use has plummeted from 21.8% in 2011 to only 0.6%.
4.6% ▲ +461.0%
Lower than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -97.4%
Higher than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.8%
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 0.6%
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.
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 Barker [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515025/mount-barker/topic/transport