3.9% ▼ -55.3%
Lower than 87% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 3.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Sunshine Coast · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Sunshine Coast
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer homes are without a car in Sunshine Coast than in most other areas. While the region relies heavily on private transport, 15% of workers now stay at home for their jobs, a figure that has climbed steeply since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 3.9% of households lack a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most homes have at least one car, with 39.8% owning two and another 20.9% owning three or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Sunshine Coast splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home rose 12 points since 2011 to reach 15%, though this remains well below the Australian figure of 21%. Most people still drive to work, as only 0.9% of the workforce uses public transport.
15.0% ▲ +371.7%
Higher than 80% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 15.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.9% ▲ +63.1%
Higher than 63% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Sunshine Coast [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/3015/sunshine-coast/topic/transport