5.1% ▼ -52.8%
Lower than 72% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 10.7%
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mackay · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Mackay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A huge 72.3% of people in Mackay drive themselves to work, reflecting a heavy reliance on cars. Most homes here own multiple vehicles, while very few residents work from home compared to the rest of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common in Mackay, with 39.6% of homes owning two vehicles and 14.2% having three. Only 5.1% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen 5.7 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Mackay, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (34%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is rare here; only 4.2% do so, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%. Public transport use is also low at 1.4%, though this is much higher than in most similar areas.
4.2% ▲ +31.5%
Lower than 86% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.4% ▲ +103.7%
Higher than 78% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 1.4%
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 Mackay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3011/mackay/topic/transport