6.7% ▲ +117.3%
Higher than 61% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 6.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Cairns · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Cairns
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than half of the workforce in Cairns drive themselves to work, with 57.9% of employees commuting by car. While car travel dominates, the area has seen a significant shift toward remote work over the last decade. Most households rely on one or two vehicles to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 6.7% of households in Cairns have no motor vehicle, a figure that has risen by 3.6 percentage points since 2011. This is higher than most similar areas, though it remains about the same as the Queensland and Australian figures.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Cairns splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (38%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home rose sharply to 11.8% since 2011, which is much higher than most similar areas. Meanwhile, public transport use fell to 1.1%, leaving it a little below the state and national figures.
11.8% ▲ +289.1%
Higher than 73% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.1% ▼ -79.6%
Higher than 69% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 1.1%
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.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Cairns [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3004/cairns/topic/transport