0.6% ▼ -81.6%
Lower than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mount Cotton · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Mount Cotton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every home in Mount Cotton relies on a car for daily life, with only 0.6% of households owning no motor vehicle. This heavy dependence on private transport is matched by a shift in how people work, as a growing number of residents now avoid the commute entirely by working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have multiple cars, with 53.8% owning two and another 20.8% owning three. The proportion of households without a vehicle is well below the national figure of 7.4% and has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Mount Cotton, 2 vehicles is the majority at 54%; 3 vehicles is next at 21%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has become much more common here, rising to 16.8% since 2011, which is a little above the Queensland average. Very few people use public transport to get to work, with only 0.7% using it, a figure that is a little below the national average.
16.8% ▲ +284.3%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.4%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 16.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▼ -66.6%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Cotton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL314018/mount-cotton/topic/transport