32.3% ▼ -25.5%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 43.3%
- 2016: 44.6%
- 2021: 32.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mapoon · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Mapoon
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Travel patterns in Mapoon have shifted over time, though it remains an area where many households lack a car. About 32.3% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is far above the national figure of 7.4%. This high rate of carless homes is among the highest for similar areas.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost half of homes have one vehicle, while 23.7% have two. The number of homes without a car is much higher than the Queensland figure, with a gap of 26 percentage points.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Mapoon, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 42%, followed by No vehicle (29%) and 2 vehicles (21%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking and driving are common, but 6.3% of people use public transport to get to work, which is well above the national rate of 3.1%. Meanwhile, only 3.1% work from home, a figure far below the Queensland average of 14.1%.
3.1% ▲ —
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 3.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
6.3% ▲ —
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 6.3%
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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This means access to services is far below the state level, where there are typically 2.99 stops per 1,000 people.
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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Mapoon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31758/mapoon/topic/transport