1.8% ▲ +1.4%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 1.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
South Mission Beach · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in South Mission Beach
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people in South Mission Beach go without a car compared to the state or national figures. Almost every home owns a motor vehicle, making the area highly reliant on private transport for daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 1.8% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the Queensland figure of 5.8%. Most households have two vehicles (46.1%) or one vehicle (36.7%), while 12.2% own three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In South Mission Beach, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 1 vehicle (36%) and 3 vehicles (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 70.2% of people, while only 7.9% work from home. This working-from-home rate is far below the 21% seen across Australia.
7.9% ▲ +11.6%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▼ -76.7%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 routes or stops in the area. This means the number of weekly departures is far below the Queensland figure of 720.7 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 South Mission Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32596/south-mission-beach/topic/transport