9.0% ▲ +260.5%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 9.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mareeba · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Mareeba
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Daily life in Mareeba relies heavily on cars, though a growing number of households now get by without one. While most people drive, 9.0% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is a much higher figure than in most other similar areas.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Nearly 40% of homes have one car and 35% have two. The number of households without a vehicle has risen sharply since 2011, reaching 9.0%, which is well above the Queensland figure of 5.8%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Mareeba, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 40%, followed by 2 vehicles (35%) and 3 vehicles (11%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, with 64.8% of people as the driver. Very few people work from home at 4.4%, a figure far below the national average of 21.0%.
4.4% ▲ +152.4%
Lower than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 4.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.2% ▲ +3.3%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 2.2%
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 Mareeba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314016/mareeba/topic/transport