34.6% ▲ +857.7%
Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 34.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Horn Island · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Horn Island
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Walking is the most common way to get to work in Horn Island, with 26.3% of workers doing so. This is a place where many people do not own cars and a growing number rely on public transport to get around. Since 2011, the number of homes without a vehicle has risen sharply to 34.6%.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 34.6% of homes here have no motor vehicle, which is far above the national figure of 7.4%. This is one of the highest rates for this type of area, and the number has climbed 31 points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Horn Island, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 41%, followed by No vehicle (33%) and 2 vehicles (17%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use for work is far above the state average at 13.2%, a figure that rose 12 points since 2011. Meanwhile, only 1.6% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
1.6% ▼ -49.3%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 1.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
13.2% ▲ +914.0%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 13.2%
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 Horn Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321053/horn-island/topic/transport