4.2% ▼ -18.0%
Lower than 65% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 5.2%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mackay · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Mackay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 5.2% of people in Mackay work from home, a figure far below the national average of 21%. This reliance on physical workplaces is mirrored by a strong dependence on cars for daily travel. Most households here own multiple vehicles to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is high in Mackay, with 40% of homes owning two vehicles and 15.8% owning three. Only 4.2% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the Australian figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Mackay, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (31%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 71.1% of people acting as the driver. Use of public transport to commute has fallen to 1.4%, which is a little below the national figure of 3.1%.
5.2% ▲ +31.5%
Lower than 86% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 5.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.4% ▼ -45.2%
Higher than 58% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 1.4%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
The area has 277 public transport stops, all for buses, but there are only 2.28 stops per 1,000 people. This is well below the Queensland figure of 2.99, and weekly departures are far below the state average.
277
Higher than 75% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.28
Lower than 60% of council (lga) areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
151.3
Higher than 59% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled weekly public-transport departures from stops in the area, per 1,000 residents — how often transit actually runs, not just whether a stop exists (GTFS schedules for a representative week; population from the 2021 Census).
11
Higher than 58% of council (lga) areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
- Public transport timetables (GTFS) — State & territory transport agencies, 2026 (CC BY 4.0 (WA: custom PTA licence)).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Mackay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA34770/mackay/topic/transport