6.6% ▼ -33.4%
Higher than 62% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Hervey Bay · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Hervey Bay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost no one uses public transport to get to work in Hervey Bay, where only 0.5% of workers do so. This highlights a heavy reliance on private cars for daily travel. Most homes have at least one vehicle, and the percentage of households without a car has fallen since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 44% of homes have one vehicle and 33.6% have two. While 6.6% of households have no motor vehicle, this is a drop from 9.9% in 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Hervey Bay, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 44%, followed by 2 vehicles (34%) and 3 vehicles (11%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, with 68.3% of people as the driver. Only 6.9% work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
6.9% ▲ +74.8%
Lower than 82% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 6.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▼ -96.9%
Lower than 90% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 15.8%
- 2016: 15.0%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 zero recorded routes or stops. This means there are no weekly departures per 1,000 people, a figure far below the Queensland average.
0
Lower than 99% of state electorate 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 state electorate 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 state electorate 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 state electorate 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 Hervey Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30033/hervey-bay/topic/transport