3.4% —
Lower than 79% of state electorate areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Whitsunday · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Whitsunday
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Very few people in Whitsunday rely on public transport or work from home compared to other areas. This is a car-dependent region where only 3.4% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most residents rely on their own cars to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common here, with 41.4% of homes owning two vehicles and 30.3% owning one. Only 3.4% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is much lower than most similar areas.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Whitsunday, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (30%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, with 63.8% as the driver. Very few people work from home at 6.6%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%. Public transport use for commuting is about the same as the national rate at 2.2%.
6.6% —
Lower than 83% of state electorate areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.2% —
Lower than 53% of state electorate areas.
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, with only 2 routes and 41 stops across the area. This results in just 0.75 stops per 1,000 people, which is far below the Queensland figure of 2.99.
41
Lower than 93% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.75
Lower than 96% 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).
46.0
Lower than 96% 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).
2
Lower than 97% 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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Whitsunday [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30092/whitsunday/topic/transport