7.6% ▼ -17.1%
Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Atherton · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Atherton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A tiny 1.0% of workers in Atherton use public transport to get to their jobs. Most residents rely on their own cars, though the area has a higher rate of homes without a vehicle than most other similar places. This reflects a community where driving is the primary way to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 7.6% of homes in Atherton have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas and a little above the Queensland figure of 5.8%. Most households have one or two cars, though the number of carless homes fell slightly since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Atherton, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 44%, followed by 2 vehicles (33%) and 3 vehicles (10%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, with 65.2% of people as the driver. Only 6.4% of people work from home, which is well below the Queensland figure of 14.1% and far below the national average.
6.4% ▲ +20.5%
Lower than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 6.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.0% ▼ -78.7%
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.9%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 1.0%
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 Atherton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314001/atherton/topic/transport