8.5% ▼ -13.2%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.8%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 8.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mitchell · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Mitchell
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Mitchell compared to the rest of the country. While 21% of Australians work from home, only 8.8% do here. This highlights a local reliance on physical workplaces and personal cars for daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Mitchell have at least one car, though 8.5% have none, which is much higher than most similar areas. About 36% of households keep two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Mitchell 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 main way to get to work, with 60.7% of people as the driver. Public transport is not used for commuting here, which is well below the national figure of 3.1%.
8.8% ▼ -34.9%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.6%
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 8.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Mitchell. This means weekly departures are far below the Queensland figure of 721 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Mitchell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31865/mitchell/topic/transport