7.6% ▼ -18.5%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.3%
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Atherton · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Atherton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car reliance remains the dominant way to get around Atherton, where the vast majority of households own at least one vehicle. While some residents walk or use other modes, very few people work from home compared to the rest of the country. The typical household uses a car for almost every single trip.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 7.6% of homes in Atherton have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas. Most households have one or two cars, with 43.4% owning one and 33.4% owning two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Atherton, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 43%, followed by 2 vehicles (33%) and 3 vehicles (10%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 64.4% of people commuting as the driver. Only 7.4% of residents work from home, a figure that is far below the Australian average of 21.0%.
7.4% ▲ +45.1%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.9% ▼ -34.4%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 here, with no recorded stops or routes in the area. This is far below the Queensland figure, and only 0.9% of people use public transport to get to work.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality 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 suburb / locality 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 suburb / locality 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 suburb / locality 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 Atherton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30096/atherton/topic/transport