5.2% ▼ -45.1%
Higher than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.5%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 5.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mackay · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Mackay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more people in Mackay now own cars than they did in 2011. While 5.2% of homes still have no motor vehicle, this is a drop of 4.3 percentage points over the last decade. The area relies heavily on cars for travel, with very few people working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have multiple cars, with 39.4% owning two and 14% owning three. This means only 5.2% of homes have no vehicle, a figure that is about the same as the Queensland average.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Mackay splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 72.3% of residents. Very few people work from home at 4.1%, which is far below the national figure of 21%. Meanwhile, those using public transport for their commute rose slightly since 2011 to 1.4%.
4.1% ▲ +38.8%
Lower than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.4% ▲ +139.4%
Higher than 82% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 1.4%
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 Mackay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL311003/mackay/topic/transport