7.9% ▲ +89.0%
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Proserpine · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Proserpine
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more people in Proserpine live without a car than in most similar areas. While 42.7% of homes have one vehicle, there has been a rise in car-free households, which reached 7.9% in 2021.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 7.9% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that is a little above the Queensland rate of 5.8%. Roughly a third of households own two cars, while 10.9% have three.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Proserpine, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 43%, followed by 2 vehicles (34%) and 3 vehicles (11%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is rare here, with only 4.9% doing so, which is far below the national figure of 21%. Most people drive to work, and very few use public transport at 1.3%.
4.9% ▼ -24.2%
Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.5%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 4.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.3% ▼ -16.0%
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 1.3%
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 Proserpine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315081/proserpine/topic/transport