32.3% ▼ -14.7%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.8%
- 2016: 35.8%
- 2021: 32.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
New Mapoon · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in New Mapoon
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 43% of people in New Mapoon drive themselves to work, though the area has a very unusual mix of transport options. While many rely on cars, about a third of homes have no motor vehicle at all, which is far more common here than in the rest of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 32.3% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure far above the Australian average of 7.4%. For those who do own cars, 37.5% of households have just one vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In New Mapoon, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 39%, followed by No vehicle (33%) and 2 vehicles (19%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking to work is common here at 19.4%, while only 2.9% of people work from home. This is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
2.9% ▲ +5.8%
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 2.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.9% ▼ -80.2%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.7%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 2.9%
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.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This puts New Mapoon far below the Queensland average for the number of stops and departures 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 New Mapoon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32131/new-mapoon/topic/transport