8.8% ▲ +8.0%
Higher than 90% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 7.2%
- 2021: 8.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Maryborough · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Maryborough
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Much higher rates of car-free living than similar areas define Maryborough, where 8.8% of homes have no motor vehicle. While most residents rely on cars, the town shows a distinct gap in remote work and public transport use compared to the rest of the state.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 8.8% of households here have no motor vehicle, which is well above the Queensland figure of 5.8%. Most homes do have a car, with 38.6% owning one and 33.2% owning two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Maryborough, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 39%, followed by 2 vehicles (33%) and 3 vehicles (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people work from home here at 5.1%, a figure far below the Australian average of 21%. This reliance on physical workplaces is matched by a low 0.4% use of public transport, while 68.9% of workers drive themselves to work.
5.1% ▲ +248.6%
Lower than 77% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -30.7%
Lower than 71% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 0.2%
- 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 Maryborough [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3012/maryborough/topic/transport