3.5% ▼ -72.5%
Lower than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 3.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Rainbow Beach · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Rainbow Beach
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero people use public transport to get to work in Rainbow Beach, highlighting a total reliance on other travel options. Most households here own at least one car, and the number of homes without a vehicle has dropped significantly since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost 40% of homes have two vehicles, and only 3.5% of households have no motor vehicle. This is well below the national figure of 7.4% and reflects a 9.2 point drop over the last ten years.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Rainbow Beach splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (41%) and 1 vehicle (40%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
About 15% of the workforce now works from home, a figure that has risen 8.5 points since 2011. For those who leave the house, nearly half drive themselves to work, while 10.4% walk.
15.0% ▲ +128.9%
Higher than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.6%
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 15.0%
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: 2.1%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 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 Rainbow Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315082/rainbow-beach/topic/transport