6.3% ▼ -16.6%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 6.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Cardwell · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Cardwell
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people are working from home in Cardwell than in 2011, while fewer households are without a car. This shift highlights a growing reliance on home-based work and private vehicles in a town where public transport is virtually unused.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have one or two cars, with 47.5% owning one and 35.7% owning two. About 6.3% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is higher than most similar areas and has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Cardwell, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 48%, followed by 2 vehicles (36%) and 3 vehicles (8%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one in the area uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure. Instead, over half of workers drive themselves, while 11.6% work from home—a rate that has risen since 2011.
11.6% ▲ +83.8%
Higher than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.9%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Cardwell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315014/cardwell/topic/transport