58.6% ▲ +34.9%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 43.4%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 58.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Hamilton Island · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Hamilton Island
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over half of all homes in Hamilton Island have no motor vehicle, which is far above the national figure. This makes the area stand out for its lack of private cars. Most people here rely on walking or public transport to get around the island.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 58.6% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that has risen 15 percentage points since 2011. This is far above the 7.4% typical for Australia, with only 28.8% of local households owning a single car.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Hamilton Island, No vehicle is the majority at 60%; 1 vehicle is next at 29%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking is the most common way to get to work at 36.7%, while 10.9% use public transport, which is well above the national figure of 3.1%. Very few people work from home at 1.5%, far below the 21.0% seen across Australia.
1.5% ▲ +36.5%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.1%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 1.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
10.9% ▲ +92.5%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.6%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 10.9%
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 Hamilton Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315040/hamilton-island/topic/transport