6.3% ▲ +421.8%
Higher than 52% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 1.2%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 6.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Hervey Bay · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Hervey Bay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people in Hervey Bay are without a car than they were in 2011, though the area remains heavily reliant on driving. The number of homes without a motor vehicle rose by 5.1 percentage points over the decade to reach 6.3%. Most residents still depend on their own transport to get around the region.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 6.3% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is about the same as the Queensland figure. For those who do own cars, 43.3% of homes have one vehicle and 34.5% have two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Hervey Bay, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 43%, followed by 2 vehicles (35%) and 3 vehicles (11%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people use public transport to get to work, with just 0.4% doing so. Working from home is also uncommon at 6.9%, a figure far below the national average and much lower than in other areas.
6.9% ▲ +40.7%
Lower than 61% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 4.9%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 6.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -23.3%
Lower than 68% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Hervey Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3009/hervey-bay/topic/transport