5.5% —
Higher than 57% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 5.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mareeba · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Mareeba
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer public transport options exist in Mareeba than in the rest of Queensland, leaving most residents reliant on their own cars. This is a car-dependent area where 59% of workers drive themselves to work and almost no public transit services are available.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Mareeba have multiple cars, with 37.1% owning two and 15.2% owning three. Only 5.5% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen slightly since 2016 and is a little below the national rate.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Mareeba splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (33%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is less common here than across Australia, with 12.1% of people doing so. Only 1.5% of the workforce uses public transport to get to work, a figure that has barely changed over the last five years.
12.1% —
Higher than 50% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 12.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.5% —
Higher than 59% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 1.5%
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.
Public transport is almost non-existent in the area, with zero recorded stops or routes. This leaves the region far below the Queensland average for both the number of stops and weekly departures per 1,000 people.
0
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
Lower than 99% 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).
0.0
Lower than 99% 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).
0
Lower than 99% 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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Mareeba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA34880/mareeba/topic/transport