2.5% ▼ -57.5%
Lower than 91% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Hinchinbrook · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Hinchinbrook
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Private cars are essential for daily life in Hinchinbrook, where very few households get by without a vehicle. Only 2.5% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that is well below the national average and has fallen since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households are well-equipped for travel, with 44.3% owning two vehicles and 25.1% owning three or more. This explains why Hinchinbrook has far fewer car-less homes than the typical Australian area.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Hinchinbrook, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 44%, followed by 1 vehicle (28%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, with 71.4% of people being the driver. Working from home is uncommon here at 6.0%, which is far below the national figure, while public transport use is much lower than most areas at 0.8%.
6.0% ▼ -16.8%
Lower than 86% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 7.3%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 6.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.8% ▼ -6.7%
Lower than 81% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 0.9%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 very limited, consisting of only three bus routes and 71 stops. With only 80 weekly departures per 1,000 people, this is far below the Queensland figure of 720.7.
71
Lower than 89% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
1.39
Lower than 93% 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).
80.0
Lower than 93% 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).
3
Lower than 96% 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 Hinchinbrook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30035/hinchinbrook/topic/transport