7.6% —
Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mount Isa · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Mount Isa
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A much higher proportion of homes in Mount Isa have no motor vehicle compared to most similar areas. While nearly 40% of households own two cars, the area relies heavily on private transport for getting around. This dependency is clear in the way people travel to work, where almost very few use public options.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 7.6% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is a little above the Queensland figure. The most common setup is two vehicles per home, seen in 39.1% of households, while 34.5% have just one.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Mount Isa splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Private cars dominate the trip to work for 70.5% of drivers, as public transport use is a little below the national figure at just 0.2%. Very few people work from home at 1.9%, a figure that is far below the national average and has fallen since 2016.
1.9% —
Lower than 92% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 1.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% —
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 1.4%
- 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/ucl/UCL313009/mount-isa/topic/transport