7.0% ▼ -32.2%
Higher than 67% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 10.3%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mareeba · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Transport & Vehicles in Mareeba
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Reliance on private cars is a way of life in Mareeba, where there are no public transport routes or stops available. Only 7.1% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%. This makes the car the primary tool for getting around and accessing work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Mareeba have at least one car, with 36.2% owning two and 13.8% owning three. The proportion of households with no motor vehicle has fallen to 7.0%, which is a little above the Queensland figure of 5.8%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Mareeba splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to travel, with 63.3% of workers commuting as a driver. Very few people use public transport for work (2.1%), and only 7.1% work from home, a figure that is well below the state average of 14.1%.
7.1% ▲ +33.8%
Lower than 82% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 7.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.1% ▲ +39.4%
Higher than 52% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 2.1%
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 effectively non-existent in Mareeba, as there are zero routes or stops. This means the area has no weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the Queensland average of 720.7.
0
Lower than 99% of statistical area 2 (sa2) 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 statistical area 2 (sa2) 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 statistical area 2 (sa2) 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 statistical area 2 (sa2) 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 Mareeba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/306051170/mareeba/topic/transport