7.6% ▼ -8.7%
Higher than 83% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mount Isa · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Mount Isa
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost no one uses public transport to get to work in Mount Isa, with only 0.2% of workers doing so. This is much lower than most other areas, reflecting a city where the vast majority of people rely on their own cars to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 7.6% of homes here have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas and a little above the Queensland figure. Most households own at least one car, with 39.1% having two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Mount Isa, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (34%) and 3 vehicles (13%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get to work, with 70.5% of people as the driver. Very few people work from home at 2.0%, a figure that is far below both the state and national averages.
2.0% ▼ -21.0%
Lower than 99% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 2.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -86.5%
Lower than 89% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 1.7%
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 0.2%
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 Mount Isa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3013/mount-isa/topic/transport