6.5% ▼ -26.4%
Higher than 62% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 6.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mackay · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Mackay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over 71% of people in Mackay drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. Most homes own at least one vehicle, and the area has very few people working from home compared to the rest of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have one or two cars, though 6.5% of homes have no motor vehicle. This figure is higher than in most similar areas, but it has fallen by 2.3 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Mackay splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people here work from home at 4.0%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%. Only 1.3% of workers use public transport, a figure that has fallen 7.9 percentage points since 2011.
4.0% ▼ 0.0%
Lower than 96% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 4.0%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.3% ▼ -85.7%
Lower than 69% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 1.3%
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 limited to buses, with only 11 routes and 180 stops. The number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is far below the Queensland figure, and the area has much lower transit access than most similar places.
180
Lower than 72% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.22
Lower than 77% 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).
259.8
Lower than 81% 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).
11
Lower than 84% 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 Mackay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30047/mackay/topic/transport