6.7% ▼ -28.3%
Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.3%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 6.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Cairns · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Cairns
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Cairns compared to the national figure, though this trend is growing. While car travel remains the main way to get around, the city sees a higher proportion of homes without any motor vehicle than most similar areas.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Cairns have one or two cars, but 6.7% of households have no motor vehicle. This is higher than most areas, although the figure has fallen by 2.6 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Cairns splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (38%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
More people use public transport to get to work here than in most similar areas, though at 1.1% it is still a little below the state and national figures. Working from home rose to 11.8% since 2011, which remains well below the Australian average.
11.8% ▲ +216.5%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.1% ▼ -45.2%
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 1.1%
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 Cairns [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL303001/cairns/topic/transport