6.3% ▼ -32.5%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.3%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 6.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Hervey Bay · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Hervey Bay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 0.4% of workers use public transport in Hervey Bay, making the area heavily reliant on private cars. While most households own at least one vehicle, a small number of people have shifted toward working from home over the last decade.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have one or two cars, and only 6.3% of households have no motor vehicle. This figure is higher than most similar areas, though it has fallen by 3.0 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Hervey Bay, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 43%, followed by 2 vehicles (35%) and 3 vehicles (11%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 69% of people commuting as the driver. Working from home has risen to 6.9% since 2011, but this remains far below the national figure of 21%.
6.9% ▲ +206.7%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 6.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -75.1%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 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 Hervey Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL311002/hervey-bay/topic/transport